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| In front of the big tree - Podocarpus spp |
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| With Helen and Jock in Diepwalle |
A wonderful sunny day at last. We met Jock and Helen and drove out to Diepwalle indigenous forest, now part of National Parks. The forest is on the Prince Alfred Pass between Knysna and De Vlugt and has several hiking and walking trails. We chose a 5km walk which turned out to be 7km. It however was a lovely walk – most enjoyable. Lots of stinkwood, huge yellowwoods, ferns, and many other species – right up Doggy’s street. The trails followed the old extraction paths that the woodcutters of old, originally cut through the forest, and are still used today to extract indigenous timbers.
After a rushed picnic lunch we returned to Knysna where we awaited the arrival of Mike and Nita Cameron. Mike was our bestman 40 years ago, and they also married later in 1971 in Knysna. We were at their wedding. Mike is lecturer in Nature Conservation at Saasveld Forestry College, now part of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University – he has been a lecturer at Saasveld for the past 31 years and retires later this year. Not having seen them for quite some time, we had a fantastic evening recalling the past over a couple of bottles of good wine, and a lekker braai.
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