On Monday we climbed the Van Stadens mountain by 4×4 (aren’t we energetic) and started the search for the elusive Erica sagittata in the area to the south of the antennae park on top. Even though we saw plenty of interesting Ericas in the area Wesley had indicated a few years ago we did not spot the one we were looking for so then we followed the trail from there to Ladyslipper and were very happy when Ellie spotted a specimen near the paraglider jump-off spot.
It was quite windy and the only way to get a semi-decent picture was to break off a small piece and photograph it with a boot as a background. Needless to say we took the twig and are now trying to root it.
We also discovered some fauna on the shrub, perfectly camouflaged.
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As we got close to the path coming up from Falcon Rock we were most surprised to hear another group coming up and even more surprised when it turned out to be Goodman, Vee, Noxi and Samantha taking up a group of Boardwalk staff doing a teambuilding thing. We had a good chinwag, they turned back and we dropped down into the valley behind Ladyslipper and up to the other side to the car for a well deserved lunch.