Peter Giddy Guided Tours -- Hiking Trails of Port Elizabeth.

Peter Giddy Guided Tours

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Hiking Trails in Port Elizabeth

Would you like to spend a couple of hours with a group of South Africans? Come hiking.  Each week we have a different route.  We hike on Wednesdays; Thursdays and Saturdays.
I pick you up at your hotel, We spend the time walking -- usually around 2-3 hours of nature.  Included is a Sling Bag; Water and a snack.
This is for all ages and not an extreme sport at all.

Wednesday 21st March 2018.
It is a Public Holiday in PE today.  So a good day for a hike.
A bit overcast and cool.... A great day for a hike at the Hopewell Nature Reserve.

 Early morning sun rays as we group together at the start of the walk.

excuse my finger.... Robin groups us together to explain the route.  After which we are none the wiser as to where we will be walking.
I fetch Iuan Souza from the Marine Hotel at 7.00am.  Iuan is from Brazil and on holiday for three weeks in South Africa.  He has opted to join the Hike today.
We drive through to Hopewell where we meet the rest of the group.  Robin does the registration and we all sign the register.

Today there are 34 hikers in the group.  A varied mix of people from the youthful to us oldies.  Robin tries to explain the route but we have no idea of what he is trying to explain.  Robin has this GPS Gadget which he used to record a previous walk that he did. He uses this to track the route of today which alternates between pathways and crossing the grasslands.

 The cool overcast day makes this hike tolerable today.  On another day with no cloud cover and no cool breeze -- we would need over 1.5 liters of water each.

We regroup and then continue up the next hill.
As we walk we see a variety of animals from Zebra to Eland.  Hopewell is a vast reserve with a variety of plant life.  We seem to see it all from tiny everlastings to hardy thorn bush and spekboom.  The trail is a tough one -- Uneven surfaces; long up hills and plenty of down hills; Walking on grassy plains and then along the river bed in a valley.

We stop for a break after about 5 or 6km.  I am used to hiking around 8km on a Wednesday.  Today it will clearly be a longer hike.  Fortunately I have two water bottles as one is already empty.
After the break we continue on towards the Tented Camp which we reach at about 9km.  From here the final section is through a valley and then we end with a short climb to the office block at about 12km.  We have been hiking for about 3.5 hours and mostly pretty tired.
I had not planned to stay for lunch but some of the group relax for a lunch or coffee at the end.

 We look across the field at the herd of Eland.

Iuan and Robin after a river crossing.
Iuan has met a number of the hikers and has really enjoyed this outing..

On the hike today are 34 walkers.
Robin our hike leader; Ferdie, Val and Arinda who are generally Saturday Hikers; Jurgen; Chandre and Robert; Rose and Paul; David; Jim on the motorbike; Victoria and Mike in the Landrover; Ralf; Reg; Ian Andrews; Jimmy and Di; Lyn Zoetmulder; and Flo; Sheila and Jenny also Thursday walkers; Lydia; Jenny; Dennis; Lesley who works for Alan Fogarty; Lisa; Des who is another Santiago Pilgrim; Manny and Yogi; Rencia; Naomi who reminds me that I have her in my Black Book; Iuan and Peter

To arrange a group or even a single person wanting to hike trails or beaches of Port Elizabeth -- Contact Peter Giddy Guided Tours.

Peter also arranges Wildlife Safaris; Canoe Trails; Garden Route Tours; Sandboarding;  Quad Biking; Horse trails and beach rides; City Tours; Historical and Culture Tours; Township Tours.

Contact Peter at peter.giddy@gmail.com
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