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Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Stunning Silvermine Nature Reserve — Photographs

posted to: Photos of South Africa, Western Cape

The beau­ti­ful Silvermine Nature Reserve is part of the Table Mountain National Park is is perched on top of the moun­tain, over­look­ing on the one side Ou Kaapse Weg (the entrance is at the top of this road), Tokai, Constantia and Westlake and on the other side Noordhoek, Fish Hoek and Sun Valley.

There are loads of well marked moun­tain bik­ing and hik­ing trails (dogs are allowed on some of the trails) so if you enjoy either of these activ­it­ies you will love Silvermine.  Picnic and braai areas are avail­able in parts of the park and some of these are situ­ated around the Silvermine Reservoir — a per­fect place to spend a Saturday or Sunday espe­cially dur­ing the sum­mer months. Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues
Thursday, 19 August 2010
South African Hiking Trails

Scaling Steenberg Peak — a 2.5 hour circular route at Silvermine

posted to: Activities and Things To Do, Western Cape
Scaling Steenberg

Scaling Steenberg

I must be hon­est and admit that we did this hike in reverse. Well, not exactly reverse, but we opted for the clock­wise dir­ec­tion, whilst the hike, when you take the time to read the descrip­tion, actu­ally recom­mends that you take the anti-clockwise route in order to the avoid the rather obvi­ous uphill slog to Wolfkop – 'The anti-clockwise dir­ec­tion avoids a long slog up the Wolfkop steps'.

But hey, all things being equal, we felt we got a good deal from our hike. And the advant­age of doing it this way (the clock­wise route, against recom­mend­a­tion) is that you get to see really great views over the Constantia Valley and Muizenberg far sooner than the other more sedent­ary ver­sion of the hike. Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues
Thursday, 27 May 2010
South African Hiking Trails

A walk at Silvermine — so much more than a breath of fresh air

posted to: Activities and Things To Do, Western Cape
Silvermine Gate 2

Silvermine Gate 2

Beautiful Silvermine nature reserve forms part of Table Mountain National Park and hugs the greater part of the Cape Peninsula moun­tain range from Constantiaberg to Kalk Bay. Whilst most Capetonians know gate one — on the right-hand-side of Ou Kaapse Weg when trav­el­ling towards Fish Hoek — very well, where one can pic­nic, walk around the dam or join the hike to Elephant's Eye, fewer people know that there is also a second gate, on the left-hand-side on Ou Kaapse Weg when trav­el­ling in the same direction.

For those with any sense of geo­graphy, this is also known as Silvermine east, but since I struggle to dis­tin­guish my right from my left on a good day, using this ter­min­o­logy is Greek to me. Suffice it to say, it's on the other side of the road as you come around a bend, so look out for the left-turning arrow on the left that indic­ates that a road joins Ou Kaapse Weg, and you shouldn't over shoot it! Continued

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Monday, 31 August 2009

Cape Floral Kingdom Photo

posted to: Photos of South Africa

Todays photo is of the view from Cape Town's Silvermine Nature reserve towards the False Bay coast­line. The Silvermine Reserve straddles the moun­tain, from the wind­ing Ou Kaapse Weg (Old Cape Road) on the Tokai, Constantia and Westlake side of the moun­tain, over the peak of the moun­tain, and into Noordhoek, Sun Valley and Fishhoek, over­look­ing the ocean ... Continued

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