https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/indigenousforest/ Recent content in Indigenousforest on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:37:46 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-06-15-last-one-for-a-bit/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:37:46 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-06-15-last-one-for-a-bit/ <p>Last one for a bit, I promise.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2022-06-18-newlands-forest-was-mighty-damp/ Sat, 18 Jun 2022 12:37:30 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2022-06-18-newlands-forest-was-mighty-damp/ <p>Newlands Forest was mighty damp after the huge amount of rain we had last week. To cross the streams with dry feet I had to do some tricky hops on slippery rocks. I amazed myself by managing to cross three of these rain gorged torrents without falling in.</p> <p>A second mountain biker alerted me to their presence with a bike bell. That makes two&hellip; ever. It&rsquo;s such a tiny, inexpensive object but it conveys so much respect to the other mountain users. Most of them though, are not well-loved by the rest of us. I have a bell on my bike just for getting myself around, let along tearing down narrow, twisting tracks. Sport riders in Cape Town need to be better.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2022-05-28-the-native-forests-of-table/ Sat, 28 May 2022 17:51:23 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2022-05-28-the-native-forests-of-table/ <p>The native forests of Table Mountain. Dense and ringing with the calls of forest birds - unlike the bare alien pine forests that still linger on some slopes.</p>