Meeting Place: Stellenbosch, the entrance to Music Conservatorium of the Stellenbosch University, corner of Victoria & Neethling Streets Departure Time: Saturday, 13 September 2008, 9:00 Cost: R11.000 (South African Rand), excluding air ticket Limit: 30 persons (a fleet of small vehicles) Guide: Prof Roy Lubke (Dept of Botany, Rhodes University, Dep. of Botany, Grahamstown 6140; R.Lubke@ru.ac.za; Tel. office: +27 46 6038593; Fax: +27 466225524; Cell: +27 82 5762626
Day 1: Saturday, 13 September 2008
Leader: Dave McDonald
Route: Stellenbosch – Swellendam
Vegetation: coastal fynbos; dune systems
Lunch: Museum at Swellendam
Accommodation & Dinner: Swellendam
Day 2: Sunday, 14 September 2008
Leader: Dave McDonald
Route: Hike up the Langeberg Mts above Swellendam; alternative: vehicle travel in the mountains and tractor trip up the Langeberg at Koo in the afternoon
Vegetation: sandstone fynbos
Lunch: packed lunches
Accommodation & Dinner: Swellendam
Day 3: Monday, 15 September 2008
Leader: Jan Vlok
Route: Swellendam – Calitzdorp – Prince Albert
Vegetation: succulent karoo with transitions to fynbos
Lunch: at Calitzdorp
Dinner: “braai” at a farm outside Prince Albert
Accommodation: Prince Albert
Day 4: Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Leaders: Sue and Richard Dean
Route: hike from town (Prince Albert) to golf course and to hills above Prince Albert
Vegetation: various succulent karoo shrublands and renosterveld
Lunch: in the town of Prince Albert
Dinner: traditional South African meal and local wine and cheese tasting
Accommodation: Prince Albert
Day 5: Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Leader: Roy Lubke
Route: Prince Albert – Meiringspoort – Knysna
Vegetation types: succulent karoo shrublands; dry sandstone fynbos; afrotemperate forests; coastal dunes
Lunch: packed lunch on Prince Albert Pass or Garden of Eden Forest
Accommodation & Dinner: Knysna
Day 6: Thursday, 18 September 2008
Leader: Julie Carlisle (Nature’s Valley Trust)
Route: Knysna – Tsitsikamma N.P. (Stroms River Mouth) – Nature’s Valley – Plettenberg Bay
Activities: forest hike along Tsitsikamma Trail, Coastal Fynbos along Otter Trail, local walks in Nature’s Valley
Vegetation types: mountain and coastal Fynbos; coastal afrotemperate forests; strandveld
Lunch: packed lunch
Dinner: Plettenberg Bay (own account)
Accommodation: Plettenberg Bay
Day 7: Friday, 19 September 2008
Route: Plettenberg Bay – Zuurberg (local walks)
Vegetation types: forests; grassy fynbos; subtropical succulent thickets
Lunch, Dinner & Accommodation: Zuurberg Mountain Inn
Day 9: Sunday, 21 September 2008
Leader: Roy Lubke
Route: Zuurberg – Grahamstown
Vegetation: grassy fynbos; grasslands; thickets; forests; removal of alien invasive (woody) plants
Lunch: Grahamstown (own account)
Dinner: Schonland Botanical Lab, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Accommodation: Grahamstown
Day 10: Monday, 22 September 2008
Leader: Fleur Way-Jones
Route: Grahamstown – Double Drift Nature Reserve (near Fort Brown)
Vegetation types & tourist attractions: subtropical thickets; discovery of diamonds in South Africa
Lunch: packed lunch
Dinner: Observatory Museum at Grahamstown
Accommodation: Grahamstown
Day 11: Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Leader(s): Trevor Steinke (Alan Cater)
Route: Grahamstown – East London – Nahoon Nature Reserve
Vegetation types: dune thickets; salt marshes; southernmost magroves in the world (Nahoon)
Lunch: packed lunch
Dinner: East London (own account)
Accommodation: East London
Day 12: Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Leader: Archeologist (East London Museum)
Activities: visit to East London Museum; archeological sites at Nahoon Point, hikes in area
Depart for Hogsback and trip north or depart for Airport (trip home)
Sites to visit: Coelacanth and History of Man exhibitions in the East London Museum
Participants of the IPE Excursion East 2 depart for Hogsback in the afternoon, while the participants returning home will be driven to the East London Airport for departure on flights at 14.00,
