More than 30 hikers chose to start their Sunday with a gentle hike around the hills in the Highlands area last Sunday.
More than 30 hikers chose to start their Sunday with a gentle hike around the hills in the Highlands area last Sunday.
Some of the 6km walk on privately owned land beyond St Cyprian's church had been marked out for trail-running.
It started off at a monument marking the nek where the settlers who had landed at Algoa Bay made their way into Grahamstown.
It took the group, who ranged in age from 5 to 70, through near-pristine indigenous forest and across meadows of pink heather to the top of a mountain where the group stopped for lunch in a grove of oldenburgias.
The return walk took in a hillside covered with the pink heather, dotted with yellow pincushion proteas, and long views south, with a glimpse of the coast on the horizon.
Most of the hikers chose to end off at the St Cyprian's Country Fair, at the historic stone church, where there were varieties of potjiekos, boerie rolls, pancakes and tea for the hungry and thirsty.
* Photos in Friday's edition of Grocott's Mail
