Hot soup breakfast with a view. We are at Sentinel Peak, which has a great view of the Ampitheatre of mountains comprising the drakensburg.
Day 10, Part 1. The hike up was very nice and scenic. We decided not to camp there that night but instead come back down and sleep at the base, so that we'd have more time tomrrow in Jo'burg. At the top was a nice rolling plateau with a meandering freshwater stream, filling water pools everywhere.
Hot soup breakfast with a view. We are at Sentinel Peak, which has a great view of the Ampitheatre of mountains comprising the drakensburg.
The clouds had intersting affects on the look of things
The start of the sentinel peak hike. We would end up on the other side of that rock at the top. What a beautiful day for a hike!
Zach, feeling much better, overcoming his bout with the 4-year-old malaria pills.
This place was beautiful when the fog/clouds were lifted!
David put on Nick's back pack. Nick had his hiking pack. I had Anton's heavy pack on. Too much stuff in it.
purdy. I like this shot, as you can tell.
The trail zagged this way and that up the mountain. Water flowed down the path most of the way.
Interestingly, there was a line of green and less-green all the way across this mountain range. Proof of Aliens, David asserts.
This hike is less straight up, but longer, and more treaterous with the water, loose rocks, etc. And with so much stuff on my back, and so much less oxygen at 2600m, I'm starting to feel it.
Going...Up!
These rock formations are really cool. So much green, and yet not a single tree...
It's almost as if the mountains have been carpeted.
The weather was different around every bend. Hot, cold, breezy, stagnant, wet, dry...
Another shot off this direction...
Now we're close to the top.
There were two sets of about 40 feet of steel chain ladder to climb. The girl on the rocks was too scared, so she never did it. I'm kinda hanging out over the top. The ladders hung over the side, but in the dry day it wasn't anything too tough.
Oh, look, a lizard!
View from top 'o ladder.
Watch out for Dassies nick!
David's between a rock and a hard place.
One more set of ladders. Are they inverted???
Is that the waterfall we are looking for? I don't think so.
Wow, let's NOT fall down there.
That same waterfall, slo-shutter photography. It makes the water look like spray or moving.
Okay, we're way up here now. Over 3000m up.
Zoomed in, theres a lake out there.
Where the waterfall comes from? Looks like the top of a table mountain.
Nick, sans concho.
Nick, con concho
David, con agua.
Zach, con dorkey hat
Zach, con concho de Nicholas.
I promise Nick is not taking a leak. We're just deciding where to go. The decision was straight.
Man, at times it seemed like this water was flowing uphill, b/c it was flowing with us, and we were definately walking uphill!
We're close to the waterfall. Btw, we're in search of the waterfall partially because at the waterfall is our last opportunity to take a bath on the trip (or so we thought) - at the natural pools there.