Cederberg Sampler

I've just had a refreshingly wild experience in the Cederberg, South Africa. This area has been designated a "wilderness area" and doesn't dissappoint. In preparation for a workshop this coming weekend I spent two days and two nights camping at Nuwerus and hiking alone in the surrounding mountains.

Once out of the valley where the camp site is located I felt perfectly isolated from the world outside. The rugged, red rock seemed to bounce the early summer heat back under my sunhat in an attempt to parch my skin, pale from the cloudy English summer.

I'll update "wild gestalt" when I have more time. But so far I've nearly put my hand on a snake while clambering out of a rock pool in the river (wearing nothing but a startled look!), patted a tame springbok, stared at the night sky white with stars, watched the meteors as they fizzed across the immense African sky and watched a small mountain buck bounding effortlessly over the broken rocky terrain.

I can't help wondering about the lives of the early inhabitants of these mountains in their hunter gatherer bands.

More soon.