It so happened that this weekend we had both the Fovs monthly meeting and the Free Spirit trail training run so we took the opportunity to get some feet on the new trail and get some feedback on it.
Saturday we started the walk from the office and took the southern section towards the Forest walk. Fortunately Sisanie had seen his way clear during the week to mow the necessary section and they looked very good.
It had rained quite a bit during the week so some paths were a bit moist. At the start of the Forest some of us decided to take the shortcut back to the upper section of the Nymph trail while the rest of us included the Forest walk in a clockwise direction.
There were some lovely fungi in the forest and it was good to see the stream running vigorously again.
Some of the group had gone ahead and got lost and ended up on the Link Trail. It didn’t seem to be a problem because everybody ended up back at the office for tea and some of us stayed on after for a lunchtime braai at the braai area.
The general consensus was that the Nymph trail is a very worthwhile extension to the trail network. Providing adequate and understandable signage will be a challenge though as one can do many loops and variations.