Hiking

In August 2017 we began hiking with U3A from False Bay in Cape Town.

On the Jumping Board at Kasteelspoort
above Camps Bay

My group is U3A Fynbos Ramblers naming and photographing wildflowers.

Bartholina 
spider orchid
October 2017 

August

Foaming fiscal (in 2024) Seven years of Fynbos Rambles

Snow on mountains, winter pools (in 2023)

After fire flowers supporting insects (in 2022)

Serruria hirsuta and Xiphotheca fruticosa (in 2021) 

Masked for lockdown (in 2020)
Rainy days around Table Mountain (in 2019)
Between fynbos flowers and snow (in 2018)
First U3A hikes in Silvermine (in 2017)
Hiking up Table Mountain and in Silvermine (in 2017)
From The Sentinel to Redhill (in 2017)

September

Fire flowers (in 2024)

Winter storms raging (in 2023) but flowers and blue skies in between

5 years of Fynbos Rambling (in 2022)

Slangkop and Olifantsbos (in 2021)

Olifantsbos and Kommetjie spring flowers (in 2020)
Wildflowers at Red Track Cape Point, water, and books (in 2019)
Spring flowers from Rondebosch Common and Smitswinkel Bay (in 2018)
Jonkershoek to Rondebosch Common (in 2017)

October

Sun halo COLD, then very HOT (in 2024)

Brakkloofrant (in 2023)

Satyrium carneum (in 2022)

In pink and sky blue (in 2021)

Great Southern Bioblitz (we won, again, in 2021)

Almost back to normal (in 2020)

Banksias on Brakkloofrant (in 2019)
Table Mountain cliffs and the Lady's Hand (in 2018)
Inkspot and spider orchids on October hikes (in 2017)

November

Pink watsonias and lots of orchids (in 2024)

Psoralea aculeata (in 2022)

Steenberg and Elsie's Peak, Noordhoek and Gifkommetjie (in 2021)

To inkspot and lady's hand (in 2020)

Silvermine flowers and India Venster (in 2019)
Gifkommetjie flowers and Suther Peak hike (in 2018)
Trappieskop Spitskop Slangkop hiking among flowers (in 2017)

December

Myburghskloof Trail (in 2023)

Disas in December (in 2022)

December hikes from blue to grey and back again (in 2020) 
Summer hikes in our mountains (in 2019 with his from January and February 2020)
Impossible thing (blue buttons) (in 2018)
Cape snow and a Swiss mountain goat (in 2017)
Kanonkop shipwrecks and summer flowers (in 2017)

January

So. Many. Fires (in 2024)

Repeat with a baboon dropping in for tea (in 2023)

Silvermine orchids and Rooihoogte for marshmallows (in 2022 with December 2021)
Elephant seal and ocean plastic (in 2019)

February

Blister bush - does it? (in 2024)

Kirstenbosch trees (in 2023)

Blue and red disas (in 2022)

January UNfitness and February disas (in 2021)
Mountain flowers (in 2018)

March

Flowers, with dolerite and lichen (in 2024)

Our wettest recorded March (in 2023)

Walking the Ungardener's knee (in 2022) and my flowers
Elsie's Peak, Slangkop and Trappieskop (in 2021)

Last hikes before lockdown (in 2020)
Snake and lizard battle, and flowers (in 2019)
Autumn flowers in the Cape Mountains (in 2018)

April

Chapman's Clouds (in 2024) 

Witsenia ericas and lichen (in 2023)

Autumn flowers at Silvermine and Cape Point (in 2022)

Almost 5 thousand species with City Nature Challenge (in 2021)
The Joker, caves and flowers (in 2019)
Hiking Three Sisters and Smitswinkel (in 2018)
Sirkelsvlei has water again (in 2018)

May

Fire flowers on Elsie's Peak (in 2024)

Green smoke and winter streams (in 2023)

Orbea at Froggy Pond (in 2022)

Found some new specials (in 2021) in our Third Wave
From May Day to Audouinia (in 2019)
May mountain flowers and the Noon Gun (in 2018)

June

Wide views on the Red Track (in 2024)

Mid-winter (in 2023). Cold and wet. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa

Corn on the cob along the Red Track (in 2022)

Silvermine and Cape Point before even MORE interesting times (in 2021)  
Slangkop Lighthouse and Table Mountain views (in 2019)
Jumping Board to Elephant's Eye (in 2018)

July

Elsie's and Noordhoek Peaks (in 2024)

Rain and shine (in 2023)

Blackhill for Aloe succotrina (in 2022)

Cape Point and Silvermine Crags (in 2021)

My first lockdown hike (in 2020)

His first lockdown hike (in 2020)
Enjoying winter rain and flowers in July (in 2019)
Chapman's Peak to Elsie's Peak (in 2018)

Pictures by Diana and Jürg Studer

of Elephant's Eye on False Bay

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