SUNDAY April 22nd                                                                         08.45 for 09.00

Venue:                                  Wonderboom Nature Reserve

Directions: Drive northwards on Paul Kruger Street (R101) and Mansefield Avenue for about 6 to 7km from the city centre. Immediately after the road goes through the gap in the Magaliesberg range turn right onto the M1 and cross the Apies River. The entrance is on the right about 300 metres from the R101. All meet inside the entrance

Queries:   Colm:  011616 6934  Cell 0825636487     Margaret:011 614 3391A/H          Mary: 011643 5374

Situated in the northern part of the city, and straddling the Magaliesberg Mountains, is the Wonderboom Nature Reserve, a 200 hectare reserve famous for its magnificent specimen of the Wonderboom. To local people, it was a sacred ground; to the Voortrekkers, a landmark spot where they rested for a short while before continuing on their journey further north. Fortune-hunters dreamed that the Kruger millions would turn up here but they found only the Stone Age tools of the prehistoric hunters who ambushed their prey in the poort (entrance) nearby. It has been an excavation site where archaeologists have exposed the largest single accumulation of stone artefacts ever to be discovered in Africa. But what was it that brought all these people to this plain on the northern outskirts of Pretoria? It is a tree unlike any other - a wild fig known all over the world as the Wonderboom (literally, miracle tree). Apart from Impala, rock hyrax, porcupine, reptiles and amphibians can be seen. At least 200 bird species can be seen such as the black eagle. Intend to see waterfall and cave on this walk   Definitely No Dogs

Picnic and Toilet  Facilities:      Yes.

 

SUNDAY May 20th                                                              8.00am

Venue:    Sandspruit Walk

Directions: North on  Rivonia Rd towards Morningside. Turn right into Kelvin Drive. Meet at no.126 Kelvin Drive. Contact Judith or Rick  011 802 2685 .Will anyone who intends doing this walk please phone Rick/Judith in advance as they would like to know how many walkers are coming.

Queries:   Colm :011616 6934  Cell 0825636487     Margaret: 011614 3391A/H          Mary: 011643 5374

Walk commmences at 08:00 on Sunday mornings to go either up or downstream. Adults and teenagers welcome and we encourage litter pickup. Walk approximately 2 hours along the river, handling invasives, viewing birds along the way. Downstream walk Kelvin Drive to 12th Avenue Rivonia and upstream via Ernst Ullman Park to Katherine. Good walking shoes required and a tolerance of having them wet from the long grass! Mild fit to very fit encouraged!

Picnic and Toilet Facilities: Unsure but Ernest Ullmann Park close by.

Approximate Admission fee:   No Fee