Work and pleasure

As the monthly meeting is our only opportunity to get work out of people who cannot make it to our Wednesdays we decided to change the walk up Ladyslipper to rather get some order into the nursery, have early tea and then go and explore part of the forest on the western side of the low bridge. This forest is seldom visited, has no paths and has some beautiful trees.

A great job was done moving like plants such as the Proteas together, select trees for more planting to replace the blue gums, do weeding and move pots with dead plants out. Also move some pallets into the shade house, amazing how the extra space fills up quickly.

In the meantime Neil dug in 50 metres of pipe to get a tap by the braai, all we need to do now is connect it and then we can declare the braai area finished.

The log furniture is now complete and it was great to see a party of hikers braaiing in the afternoon and really enjoying the facilities.

The usual sumptuous tea, coffee and  eats was enjoyed by all and then we set off for our walk only to be stopped at the top of the pass by some officials because a rally was in progress.

 
This caused a bit of consternation and delay but soon all was resolved and we split into two groups, the hackers who rather tackled the bugweed and wattle infestation and the explorers who made their way upstream. Apart from many wattles growing in and along the stream the area is quite pristine albeit that many trees are overgrown with Roicissus tomentosum.

Some of the plants that were seen:

Back at the Reserve the diehards still did some planting and hacking before it got really a little too cool on this lovely winter’s day.