Van Stadens

Our monthly meeting, this time a talk by Kay and Angie from Elands nurseries. They had one to quite a bit of trouble bringing plants for the talk which made the poor turnout doubly disappointing. I feel the participation is going from bad to worse and seriously question the effort we put into doing all […]

Concrete around arboretum stopcock Fix leak by strelizia Plant ex Blue Horizon windmill farm Remove strelizia from albizia tree Collect rocks for bench

Sunday, 20 May 2012 It has been a good while since I made a blog entry so I just do this to make sure it all still works before posting something a little more serious again. This is the main dam at Van Stadens wild flower reserve. Since we have reconstructed the 3km long pipeline

Saturday, February 4,2012 Our first meeting of the year for the Friends of Van Stadens. It rained more than 100mm over the past few days and it showed by the poor turnout, only the diehards, Jenny, Ellie, Merike, Marc, Neil, Seato, Wesley and ourselves pitched. In spite of that or maybe because a smaller group

Saturday, August 13, 2011 Unpleasant weather, stong wind, temptation to stay indoors but also good for hiking so we decided to head off to Van Stadens to see if we could find a way to connect the River Walk and the Forest Walk as many people have requested. On arrival at the top lookout point

Saturday, 02 July 2011 Official Friend of Van Stadens hack today. As I was in, let’s say, on of my more antisocial moods we ended up working mostly by ourselves but I think we still made a contribution. As we were driving towards the Reserve we discussed what we could do and didn’t really come

Friday, 24 June 2011 On a bitterly cold and blustery Friday we made a date with Neil to go and do a bit of crack repair. Unlike Leonard Cohen of whom I borrowed the title quote our crack didn’t let the light get in but rather let the water out and the field was rather

Wednesday, 22 June 2011 In amongst all the work fixing up the flatlet for the new tenant we still found time to zoot off to Van Stadens with all the materials, including a wooden box, to “quickly” pour some concrete around the offending leak. Ha, when we arrived we found that, in spite of the

Saturday, 18 June 2011 Today we went to Van Stadens for pleasure, planning a little bit of work but mainly to do the cycle route we had been discussing. Got away a bit later than usual and we arrived at the reserve just in time for coffee and then we got our bikes in gear

Sunday, 12 June 2011 Well, last Sunday was the “official” switch on of the pipe, Neil did an excellent job giving our visitors a bit of background on the water supply and the trials and tribulations of the whole project. For the occasion I quickly switched the pipe so we had water running by the