on saturday morning i enjoyed a wonderful walk with harry, our longer term volunteer, we walked directly out from the village of hope, over the railway line and through the forestry commision land to a 1150meter high peak called hanskop. the walk took 6 hours in total, walking non stop, and we think we covered about 22km. the view from the top was awesome, for those of you who know the area the mountain is the one with the masts on top and from the summit we had views across false bay to table mountain, robben island to the west, cape point and the atlantic ocean to the south, views over the village of hope and grabouw reaching out to hermanus and cape agulhas to our east, and the higher peaks of the hottentots and franschoek mountains to the north.
no photo will ever do the view justice but i will post a few onto my flickr account and have set one into this post to give you some idea....this view shows the whole of false bay, table mountain is in the centre of the photo with gordons bay to the near left out to hangklip, with cape point top middle and the helderberg mountains in the foreground, just wish a few more of you could have joined us.....aching this morning!
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