Browsing Archive: March, 2012

Poem & Photo from a Cederberg wander

Posted by Wild Liesl on Thursday, March 8, 2012,

The Quiet Portal

My sister and I scatter our chatter
along the twisting  paths,
through the cool Kloofs
and over the pulling peaks
tossing our complex lives out
across the indifferent tussock grass
across the heather raging mutely in her pink
until slowly silence swallows our littering voices
and the rain wrinkled rock
rises up and wraps us in stillness.

The clouds send flying saucer shadows
over the buffeted hills.
A budding Disa quivers on it’s curved
stem like an unopened prayer.
A spiral- shaped spide...
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Elandspad Recce 19 Feb 2012

Posted by Wild Liesl on Tuesday, March 6, 2012,

                                SUPRISES
There's no better place to be on a scorching hot day then a cool kloof whose pools and waterfalls and gnarled old trees draw you on and on until towering cliffs finally tell you that you have gone far enough. With the idea that it could be a slightly more adventurous day for clients who want to venture a little beyond Table Mountain, we went to explore a tributory to the Elandspad river in Dutoitskloof. Apart from a slightly exposed scramble at the star...
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