In search of Pelargonium scabrum

Some people put on their skirt suit and heels to go to work. I open my cupboard, look for the oldest thing I own, and put that on instead. Then I head off into the hills... But the absolute best thing about my work (botanical research) is all the beautiful places I get to go to that I would otherwise never experience, the strange and wonderful plants we discover and the quirky people I meet along the way. I could fill a blog about these folk, but I digress.

'Lost' it appears, is relative

“I know exactly where we are – we’re just SW of Judas Peak, Hout Bay.”

Had we been lost, I would have called Mountain Rescue and said that someone has blindfolded us, and dropped us somewhere in the mountains of the Western Cape. So while I still maintain that we were never lost, I will admit that the path down the mountain appeared to be missing. Being lost and being in trouble are two different things. So I call it more than semantic opinion… I call it adventure.

Red Disa Hike Adventure

 I've learnt my lesson on this hike and from now on we will call them “adventures”. You need a sense of adventure to hike, because they don’t always happen in a straight line and according to plan – so next time, we will arrange a mountain walking adventure, just so that we know to expect the unexpected.