Tsitsikamma Otter Trail
18^th to 22^th November 2006.

Once every couple of years I finally get it together to apply for and book entrance to the Tsitsikamma Otter Trail in the Southern Cape.  This is my fourth time, having first wanted to do it back in 1981 when Dad and Mom left Ruth and I in Bo's care while they drove down to a very wet Tsitsikamma Forest.  As luck would have it, due to the overflowing rivers, Dad and Mom did not hike the trail that year but did complete it a couple of years later.  My chance came in 1990 when I hiked it with Dad, Mom, Franz, Clive, Walter, Richard, Sue and others.  Since then I have had to return to re-live the wonderful experience of that fantastic section of coastline.  Amazingly, for the third time, Clive Durston joined us - Go Clive, its almost getting to be like the Comrades Marathon.

My thanks to Heather and Gary Blackstock whose photographs have been included in this record.

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Day One                      Day Two                      Day Three                        Day Four                               Day Five

© A Garratt (2006)