On Saturday, 14 May 2016, myself and another 17 members of the Gantouw Hiking Club did a 9.2km hike in the Silvermine Nature Reserve. Â The reserve was closed for a long time after a devastating fire in 2015 but opened again earlier this year. Â The hike is a fairly easy hike (about a 2a or 2b maybe) and below is the map of the route we did. The only part us the piece on the left which include a bit of scrambling up rocks and little bit on the edge of the cliff but nothing dangerous.
The morning started out very misty but since rhe reserve is high up on the mountaing range, we were way above the misty clouds below. Â However this made for some great photographs.
With the sun above us and to out backs and the clouds and mist in front below us, I had the rare experience of seeing a Brocken Specktre … yes I had no idea what it was either but had a person in the group who explained it. Â It is basically your body that throw a shadow against the cloud below and form a rainbow around your shadow. Â Tried to photograph it but did not come out very clear but you should get the idea.
We had lunch at  Noordhoek Peak bench, on the map above, the point top left.  Here we had a view of the sea below.
Gallery of photos taken during the hike, enjoy and comments welcome.
