Our Big5Hike took place this past weekend and we had almost 100 hikers summit the 5 peaks surrounding The Cavern. It was a weekend of incredible sunshine and was such a success with R1m raised to go towards educating the children from our rural amaZizi Village. We gathered on Saturday evening for our Home Coming […]
We’ve all heard of the African Big Five (fierce and hairies), and Cavernites know of the Cavern Big Five (high peaks to be walked consecutively in a single day). Now it’s time to introduce the Cavern Feathered Five. These are the birds which most epitomise The Cavern birding experience. How to choose them? Endemism is
Dear Friends We are a quarter of the way through the year and it’s true that life seems to speed up once your children have passed 6 years of age. Those early years seem so long and getting to the end of nappies and bottle washing seems to take an eternity and then suddenly they
I always preferred numbers to words. In fact I often read news articles on our travels to and from Boarding School and have to spell out words for Hilton to pronounce for me. I find English to be properly hard and confusing so when we decided we’d have a blog I was terrified of doing
The weather was not kind. A howling gale dominated the Saturday. Most birds don’t like wind. Heads down in the bushes. But luckily swifts and swallows have the opposite view. There’s probably more aerial plankton in windy conditions. Anything small and light gets swept up, and this is the best time for spiderlings to disperse
It’s March the first and I have had an idea. Ideas are scary things in our house because it always means a bit more work. My husband often asks me to just keep quiet and my family will frequently roll their eyes… and I have to admit that I’m rather scared of my own brain
People get that right? I SO love my job. In fact, let’s just say “I am a yogi”. It’s a lifestyle and a way of being. So I guess teaching yoga is an expression of my life. There is so much about it that fulfils me. But did you know that the people that give
We have recently been selected by SA Venues as the “Best Resort Hotel Accommodation in Drakensberg”. Fabulous indeed. We are grateful because it gives recognition to our incredible Cavern Team that makes holidays happen, time and time again. And, perhaps it is also these gorgeous surrounds which keep families coming back. Hills to walk in,
January 26-27 was the wettest Cavern birding weekend ever. A near-whole day of continuous rain was disastrous for swifts. Normally they land only at their nest site, which always has an elevated position. Then to take off is no more than dropping into open space, wings open, third gear engaged. Swifts don’t have first or
