Morning in the Drakensbergs!  Yahoo!  Today we slept in (kind of), had breakfast on our awesome patio, and hit the trail!

Our cabin was one of two on the property, along with the main house, more or less in the middle of 1 square kilometer of land in the..  gully, I guess, between two arms of the mountain.  There were two streams that trailed down through the land, and a handful of trails on the property that met up with trails from the adjacent state park.

That morning, we decided to walk from the Sphinx->Voerspeak-Blind Man’s Corner ->Kearnan’s Pass.  The first bits were very steep and it was super hot, but the rest of the day was smooth walkin’, with beautiful views of the Cathkin Ridge the entire time.  Stunning, really.  Our host in wilderness had referred to the Drakensbergs as God’s Country, and while I always imagined God’s country would be closer to the American Midwest, you understood what she meant.

The fauna was a little lacking, if we’re being critical– we mostly saw lizards which had become rather whatevs to us at this point, but the toad and butterflies were a nice change of pace.  Flowers, on the other hand, were beautiful and everywhere.  We missed an excellent waterfall/lunch spot cause we were getting hangry and stopped about 20 meters before it.  Always walk a little further!

After we got back, we cooked a decent dinner- soup and taters, and then played a 2005 British Commonwealth version of Trivial Pursuit, whose seemingly every question was about John Major’s mistress.  Brett proved himself to be the more Anglophillic of the two.