An easy little Sunday afternoon walk above St James in the Kalk Bay Mountains, just a little longer than 2 hours; 4.3 Km with about 300 m of climb. Bridget and I parked at St James Ravine on Boyes Drive and took the "Old Mule Track" ascending gently in a south westerly direction. At Ou Kraal we turned up the slope and climbed about 80 metres before heading back in the opposite direction at a higher level.
About 20 minutes into the walk, looking back towards Muizenberg.
And forward toward Kalk Bay Harbour with Simonstown in the distance.
We made our tea break near the highest point on some rock slabs.
And then continued on the "Hilltop path".
Tritoniopsis is flowering everywhere I have been in the last few weeks.
At least this beautiful Blue Disa (Disa Graminifolia) is in focus, if over exposed..
Saltera sarcocolla, with its neat arrangement of leaves, we see a lot, but don't always photograph. Other flowers noticed along the trail: Heliophila, Crassula coccinea, various Erica, a Serruria, Diastella. and purple Lobelia (coronopifolia?).
At Bailey's Kloof we descended and took an interesting contour path back to St James Ravine, just under the crags.
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