North Park Nature Reserve

Walking update… 18 January 2010

NEW GERMANY NATURE RESERVE…

A big thank you to Tracey Hacking for suggesting the New Germany Nature Reserve for our 5 km walk on Sunday.  I am sure that the 21 walkers who arrived thoroughly enjoyed the location and the scenic beauty of the place.  Who would have thought that such a wonderful nature reserve and walk-in-aviary could be found in the middle of New Germany?  Toti Ramblers donated R50 out of the membership fees towards the upkeep of this establishment.

Welcome to visitors

It was lovely to have Libby Deysel from Howick and Ann van Eyssen from Pietermaritzburg join our group for this walk.  We hope that we will see them often.

Membership fees received:

Membership fees were received from Opal Lawson. 

NEXT WALK – 31 JANUARY 2010

North Park Nature Reserve

Our next walk will be held on the 31^st January at the North Park Nature Reserve.

Apparently this 53 ha park is a popular place for bird watching and for picnics.  From the car park a couple of trails lead you through the forest and along the Umhlatuzana River. There are bushbuck, duiker, mongoose and waterbirds around the old settling ponds. There are also the graves of the North family who were the original owners.  I do not think that the trails will be very long – so we might need to do them twice!

Directions
Travel west for about 7 km on the M7 from the N2. Take the North Park exit and turn left onto the M5. Follow this road uphill until you reach the sign for the nature reserve where you turn right into Andersen Road. Follow this road to the entrance to the reserve at the bottom of the hill.

There is a small entrance fee mentioned on the Internet – so please take R20 with you, just in case.

We will be walking – rain or shine – so look forward to seeing you all there.

Please note:

We will be meeting at Lords and Legends between 07:15 and 07:30 for those who do not have transport.

Kindly pass this information on to those who do not have e mail facility.

Till next time!