Our expedition started on Friday at van der Stel Station where we waited for the train to take us to Cape Town
Waiting at van der Stel station for the train to Cape Town
We took over a portion of one of the carriages
On our way to Cape Town
Arriving at Cape Town station
After arriving at Cape Town station we had to find the MyCiti bus station and find the correct bus to get us to Kloofnek. Once we had bought our tickets we had to find the correct platform were our bus would pick us up.
Waiting for our MyCiti cards
Waiting at the MyCiti platform for the 106 bus to Camps Bay
It was fun riding on the bus and reading the names of the stops.
We got off at Kloofnek bus stop
After getting off the bus we found the start of the pipe track hiking path and started hiking.
Our lunch spot on the pipe track
We found the turn off to Kasteelspoort and started the uphill.
We spotted some proteas along the trail.
King protea
Sugarbush Protea with some bees in it.
The views of Camps Bay beach from Kasteelspoort were awesome.
but the hike was tough!
It was great to reach the hut and everybody started making supper! At sunset everybody went outside to watch the sunset! As always the sunset was awesome!
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset
Can you make out what word the scouts are are spelling
Later on the stars came out and we spotted Orion and the moon!
Orion and the moon
On Saturday we explored a portion of the Back table of Table Mountain that people don’t normally get to in search of a geocache called Defending the cave man.
It was cloudy over the Cape Flat
Ready for an adventure
We stopped for a snack and a rest with a view of de Villiers dam
And views over Hout bay
There were some great views of Hout Bay.
Finally we were close to the cache!
Kayla soon had the cache in hand
We all admired the cache contents
while Rob held up the rock so that we could have lunch under it.
We did some rock climbing on the way back
and shimmied up some chimneys.
and dropped into a cave!
View from the cave.
We had to get through a forest
In the forest
To get back to the Jeep track.
We all got back to the Scout hut safely.
We watch the awesome sunset again
On Sunday morning we headed down the mountain via Nursery Ravine in the pouring rain and we were soaking wet when we got to the car park!
The weekend was a great adventure!
Here are the routes we travelled by train and bus as well as the routes we hiked.
The green line is the route that the train and bus took.
The routes we hiked in blue, purple and red.
- The blue line is the route along the pipe track and up Kasteelspoort.
- The Purple line is route we hike to the defending the caveman cache and back.
- The red line is the route we hiked down to Kirstenbosch.
