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Today had quite a simple brief to it, travel about 80km to the next stop at Dumbe , on the way the road goes up Oliviershoek Pass where I would find K. breviflora . Syd had assured me that it was easy to find, saying that friends of his who were not even interested in pokers had spotted it there. The...
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This was to be my last day in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg and it started off much as yesterday had. The cloud was low and to add to my problems I also found out that the pass to take cars up to the Little Berg was closed. This meant that I had to start my hiking at around 1400m rather than the 1900m...
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If I thought the cloud was low yesterday, it was nothing compared with today. Not even the wetlands in front of the cottage were visible. My plan to do a hike on the way to my next stop were abandoned and I just hoped that as I headed north the weather would improve. I planned my route to see if I could...
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On any trip there are days where regardless of planning things go wrong and there is nothing you can do about it. The target today was a good long walk on Highmoor towards the Giant's Castle. I woke to find the clouds so low that one would not even know that there were mountains across the valley...
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It was time to move on from the heat and humidity of Durban. Syd kindly accompanied me out to the Natal Midlands, where we hoped we might find K. ichopensis and K. buchananii , but we only managed to find more populations, albeit good ones, of K. laxiflora and K. linearifolia . I then carried on back...
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When I arrived at Elton Farm , my intention was to use it as a base for exploring Bushman's Nek, where I hoped to find Kniphofia brachystachya . It had been recorded from a couple of sites in the area, although neither of the localities was very specific. However, one cannot ignore the imposing presence...
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Are you a person who has to climb something "because it's there"? Despite my focus on plants on this trip, there is still a part of that mentality inside me which is difficult to shake. So when I had found all the Kniphofia I was wanting to find at Rhodes by 11 o'clock this morning...
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