KOGELBERG BOTSOC CELEBRATES THIRTY YEARS AS A BRANCH
Merran Silberbauer One can plan everything except the weather - and Saturday 12 December dawned damp, but by 11 am the sun was shining intermittently and those who dared packed up their picnic baskets and headed for Die Stroompie, a privately owned nature reserve which, at this time of year, is covered in colourful Leucospermum cornocarpodendron. We arrived at the milkwood trees that border the pebbly cove to find the poachers had been there before us. Plastic bags and empty bottles were strewn around - the black bags were found to contain unshucked perlemoen -…read more