Breakfast on the way to Daisy at Dave's Country Kitchen at the
Red Windmill, just outside Napier. A very pleasant spot - dog and child friendly.
Quirky decor.
a nursery,
and lots of play opportunities for kids.
Arti and Gabe we thought of you and wished you were with us.
Great fun.
Then a pit stop in
Agulhas to buy some
Land's End wine at the Wine Boutique.
Daisy living up to its name.
We were here to fix the loo and replace and
repair some blinds, but we had to start off with a walk to
Papkuil. On the way we noticed some attempts at dune reclamation.
It was quite windy, so once we had established that all was well, we came home to set up our Heritage Day
braai. Pretty spectacular views and a lovely place to ponder our heritage.
Some blind repairs in the morning, before setting off along
Boegoestraat for a longer walk up the hill with the dogs.
The eponymous "
Boegoe" - growing on the side of the road in
Suiderstrand - possibly the Lemon
Buchu (
Agathosma collina).
Up on the dune ridge, there were lots of beautiful flowers including this
Kalossie (
Ixia micrandra).
Coco looking for mice and lizards - unsuccessfully I might add.
An unusual flower - for me:
Hermannia trifoliata that grows on coastal limestone soils of the southern Cape. It is a member of the Hibiscus family
Malvaceae.
We started our descent, we stumbled across the main power cable that feeds
Suiderstrand.
The wreck of the
Meisho Maru with a strange bank of fog behind it. You can see the limestone pavement that occurs in layers on this dune ridge. These rocky flats are layers of
Bredasdorp limestone - calcium carbonate that separated out about 5 million years ago and covered the quartzite.
This information comes from a booklet that you can get from the Information at the Lighthouse that describes a fabulous trail that you can do from the wreck of the
Meisho Maru called the
Rasperpunt Hiking Trail.
On the path of the trail we saw lots of these TINY little
moraeas - no bigger than a fingernail. They are Thread Irises (
Moraea setifolia). If you google the name it becomes apparent that they are a weed in Australia and parts of the USA, yet they are on our
Red List as Least Concern.
The hike then takes you past the fish traps at
Rasperpunt.
More
fishtraps with the fog bank in the background.
We saw lots of African Black
Oystercatchers, Caspian terns, Kelp Gulls, Cormorants and a Grey Heron as well as a large white egret that looked rather like a Great Egret with a dark beak.
In the reeds, a rain spider nest.
The tide was quite high when we got home.
Cancer Bush or (
Sutherlandia frutescens) flowering in front of the cottage.
Sour Fig (
Carpobrotus acinaciformis).
On the way back to Cape Town we stopped to look at the
Struisbaai fishermen's cottages at
Hotagterklip, which were surrounded by
springflowers
like this
Romulea hirsuta.
On the road with the fog bank reaching across the flats. Table Mountain ahead.
Breakfast on the way to Daisy at Dave's Country Kitchen at the Red Windmill, just outside Napier. A very pleasant spot - dog and child friendly.
Quirky decor.
a nursery,
and lots of play opportunities for kids. Arti and Gabe we thought of you and wished you were with us.
Great fun.
Then a pit stop in Agulhas to buy some Land's End wine at the Wine Boutique.
Daisy living up to its name.
We were here to fix the loo and replace and repair some blinds, but we had to start off with a walk to Papkuil. On the way we noticed some attempts at dune reclamation. 
Some blind repairs in the morning, before setting off along Boegoestraat for a longer walk up the hill with the dogs.
The eponymous "Boegoe" - growing on the side of the road in Suiderstrand - possibly the Lemon Buchu (Agathosma collina).
Up on the dune ridge, there were lots of beautiful flowers including this Kalossie (Ixia micrandra).
Coco looking for mice and lizards - unsuccessfully I might add.
An unusual flower - for me: Hermannia trifoliata that grows on coastal limestone soils of the southern Cape. It is a member of the Hibiscus family Malvaceae.
We started our descent, we stumbled across the main power cable that feeds Suiderstrand.
The wreck of the Meisho Maru with a strange bank of fog behind it. You can see the limestone pavement that occurs in layers on this dune ridge. These rocky flats are layers of Bredasdorp limestone - calcium carbonate that separated out about 5 million years ago and covered the quartzite. 
On the path of the trail we saw lots of these TINY little moraeas - no bigger than a fingernail. They are Thread Irises (Moraea setifolia). If you google the name it becomes apparent that they are a weed in Australia and parts of the USA, yet they are on our Red List as Least Concern.
The hike then takes you past the fish traps at Rasperpunt.
More fishtraps with the fog bank in the background.
We saw lots of African Black Oystercatchers, Caspian terns, Kelp Gulls, Cormorants and a Grey Heron as well as a large white egret that looked rather like a Great Egret with a dark beak.
In the reeds, a rain spider nest.
The tide was quite high when we got home.
Cancer Bush or (Sutherlandia frutescens) flowering in front of the cottage.
Sour Fig (Carpobrotus acinaciformis).
On the way back to Cape Town we stopped to look at the Struisbaai fishermen's cottages at Hotagterklip, which were surrounded by springflowers
On the road with the fog bank reaching across the flats. Table Mountain ahead.
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