We never planned on going to Devil's Backbone as we going to go to a part that was recently burnt in the Umtamvuna Nature Reserve and had to get permission and access through one of the neighbouring farms. We trundled in but found ourselves looking intensely at Google Earth before backtracking and coming up with plan B. We had managed to get two keys and travelled up to a farm near Gagoza where all the water woe's occur. It was lovely to be back here but our memories reminded us how beastily hot we had been before and returned back to our vehicle in a sweat bath and seeking shade.
The veld was a mass of Cyrtanthus breviflorus. The earth looked like it was a light with yellow flower petals and Gerbera natalensis was trying to be equally as impressive in its "wooly pajarmies"as we like to refer them to. We didn't meander very far as Dorothy was staying up near the car. The near threatened Plectranthus ernstii grew on the forest edge and the Senecio's were giving a lovely display of colour. Tiny flowers were found on Clutia pulchella, the peachy-orange leaves always eye-catching. Erythroxylum pictum our South African endemic was flowering too, its flower so tiny that it can be easily overlooked. The day slips away before we know it and we headed happily home.
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