Cavernites Chronicle | April 2015
Dear Friends We love the change in the seasons. The grasses are becoming brittle and brown and the cooler night air means that fires will soon be an everyday happening in the main lounge and dining room.
Walking the Berg never felt so good
I’m a hiking addict – I simply cannot say no to an invitation to walk in the mountains. So when a friend offered to fly me to the Drakensberg to test walk the 17km Big Five Hike, which she’s persuaded a group of friends to do in order to raise funds for a rural pre-school,
Park Run
With the new year in full swing and the end of January approaching fast it is certainly time to try and leave the festivities of the season behind and start living afresh. I am sure EXERCISE and HEALTHY LIVING are near the top of the list of each person’s new year’s resolutions… As the crowds
Cavernites Chronicle | December 2014
Dear Cavernites, As we lunge forward into the festive season we must quickly share our Activities Calendar for 2015, let you know that we have been marvellously busy despite the horrid R74 and that the summer rains have transformed our piece of mountainside into a crisp green lush valley once more! The good news is
Cellars don’t get much cooler than this!
The story begins some years ago when a thoroughbred, wine drinking, hipster beard-wearing, voortrekker (that’s me, Johannes Nicolaas Coetzee or Jan-Nico Coetzee for people from the last outpost of the British Empire of Natal) decided to follow the wagon tracks of his forefathers of the likes of Piet Retief and his band of brothers, sisters,
Fear Factor | Sunday Times | September 28 2014
Matthew Savides is fine about the cannibals but quaky with the horses on a weekend in the Northern Drakensberg IN the 1820s — or so the story goes — Zulu King Shaka’s army marauded their way through the Drakensberg, forcing smaller, weaker, worsearmed and less battle-hardened tribes to flee for their lives. One of those
Drakensberg Trail Running
After 40 days of hiking we were all fitter and feeling healthier but the saying, if you don’t use it, you lose it, is too true. And, it all happens to quickly. Fortunately, the cousins that run All Out Adventures, have organised a Trail Run in October. Run-the-berg is the carrot on the horizon and
The Cavernites Chronicle | Winter 2014
Dear Friends We had the most glorious Autumn weather and for 40 consecutive days we hiked so we are most definitely in the know! During those 40 days we had 2 days when the weather changed and we couldn’t do the hikes we planned but to do 95% of what was planned was phenomenally good.
Botanical Art Course
with Gillian Condy and Elsa Pooley The Cavern, Drakensberg Mountains, Natal 21-27 October 2012 By Wendy Burchell Helen Meyer and I booked very early for our course in the ‘berg and looked forward to it for months. It fulfilled all our expectations and more! We flew to Lanseria, suitcases groaning with art materials, a few
Stoep Talk with James Clarke
NOW that the school holidays are over, Mrs Williams in Gr 4 at Malhurst Primary set her children the traditional task of writing about their holiday. Belinda Tamsen snatched up her pen and Mrs Williams knew that more secrets of the Tamsen family were about to be revealed. My Crismus Holliday By Belinda Tamsen (Gr