The other day Melanie said she had walked along the Fish Hoek ridge to the beacon and back. I had never heard of it. She explained where it was and on Saturday Julian and I tried it out.
Mike dropped us off at the traditional start of Elsie’s Peak. You set off on the path to Elsie’s. The view is already fantastic…
Continue on the path and you will soon reach a couple of signs. One points you to Elsie’s while the other says this:
Follow that path. And that’s all you do. It takes you up the ridge away from Elsie’s Peak. The path is well marked and very easy. Sometimes it takes you through shady spots…
And when you come out and look back….there’s Simon’s Town…
Winding your way along the top, you get views of both Fish Hoek and Glencairn. Eventually, after coming down these steps…(quite weird to find steps in the middle of nowhere)
And up again after them, you will arrive at the Beacon…
The view is majestic….this is looking out to Fish Hoek…
And this is our beautiful big village/little town…looking over the ‘burbs…
At this point, you can turn back and retrace your steps. Julian and I had been dropped by Mike so we planned on continuing. If you do, you actually start on the trail back for a very short distance and look for a path going right. Taking that you curve around the beacon hill and start downwards towards Noordhoek. You literally from there are walking along the entire ridge that runs from Elsie’s Peak to the reservoir above Harrington Road. The sun made photos a bit tricky…
But you get the drift…the sandy strip in the middle is where they have been pounding the land for building right behind our house. It looks like it’s almost ready.
You soon arrive at the reservoir…where we had picked up a fellow walker…
From the reservoir, it’s an easy walk down the road, then down Harrington and we were just about home.
Distance about 6.5km. It took us 2 hours. A lovely walk! I’ll definitely do it again. No snakes were spotted!
I love this Bible verse. Psalm 102:18
“Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord.”
I don’t know the future of technology. Perhaps these words won’t be able to be viewed in 100 years time. But perhaps they will. Let me write for a future generation that a people not yet created may praise the Lord.
There’s a thought!
These are the days!
Keep the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂