On any trip there are days where regardless of planning things go wrong and there is nothing you can do about it. The target today was a good long walk on Highmoor towards the Giant's Castle. I woke to find the clouds so low that one would not even know that there were mountains across the valley. I decided to go up anyway but stick to the paths close to the forest station. However, my car decided otherwise. Overnight the battery had gone completely flat (no I did not leave the lights on - I had not even used the lights yesterday). It was gone 1 o'clock before my replacement car arrived.
However, despite the frustrations of the morning, I eventually got […]
It was time to move on from the heat and humidity of Durban. Syd kindly accompanied me out to the Natal Midlands, where we hoped we might find K. ichopensis and K. buchananii, but we only managed to find more populations, albeit good ones, of K. laxiflora and K. linearifolia.
I then carried on back to the Drakensberg, where I will be spending the next 5 days. I have arrived at a guest farm called Heronmoor, situated above the damp meadows that lie at the base of Highmoor and Giant's Castle. After settling in, I was asked if I would like to see a nearby waterfall by my hostess, Ruth. So we set off in her landrover, up the rough forestry […]
