Big amazing day!  Waterfall city!  Oh, that sounds like a level from a Mario Brothers game.  I wonder…

But who cares, right?  We started by walking down towards Sterkspruit Falls, and along the way Becca saw our first wild baboon that *wasn’t* rummaging through garbage.  There were also a bunch of horses, which are techically fauna, we suppose, but, you know, horses.  FWIW, they don’t shoe the horses there.

Seriously!!! I mean, I ran a filter, but come on!!! Somebody owns that!

After the falls, we went through the Hiyakatha Forest Loop to Nandi Falls, because we’d totally fallen for the Falls!  !!!  And I took a cool picture of it, but some other folks walked up in the middle of.  Hope they don’t mind!

A lot of the trail was in the indigenous forest, which looked like a fairyland, according to one of us.  Hanging moss, bright green moss cover, gnarled roots, vines everywhere.  We had started the day super early to beat the 100% chance of rain that was predicted, but luckily their meteorologists are about as reliable as ours.  (No offense to meteorologists, we know you have a very hard job and that you are right most of the time!)  By the time we got back from the hike, it was only lunch time.  So we ate and then set out again, cause no rain!

There’s no ugly photos of waterfalls.

This time we planned to do the Forest Loop, which was our host’s favorite trail and stayed entirely on his property.  He’d recommended it to us, but it looked so short, we’d been saving it for when we had less time.  That was a  mistake- it was by far the most stunning hike we’d been on while there.

We’d gone out wearing our bathing suits and water shose, which was fortunate.  Lots of fording streams- we kept going back and forth over the two streams on the property dozens of times.  There were waterfalls galore, even a few opportunities to hang out behind the waterfalls like in movies!  We kept hiking, waiting to find the perfect swimming spot, and eventually we did!  Pretty deep, pretty big, and pretty cold, but not so bad that it stopped us.  Three days in a row finding waterfall lagoons.  Pretty happy about that!  No photos of this part, since we were travelling light, but we spent a long time in the waterfall pool trying to commit it to memory.

By the time we were done, the hike took a lot longer than 45 minutes and we were beat, so we had a hot shower, had dinner, and played Scrabble.  Becca won the first game hands-down, but there’s still a lot of debate as to who won the second game, or if there even was a second game.  (FWIW, there was, and Brett won.)