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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller

“The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” - Paulo Coelho

“What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.” - Juliette Binoche

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” - Amelia Earhart

“I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.” - Jim Dale

“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” - Christopher McCandless

“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” - William Feather

“Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul” - Jamie Lyn Beaitty

“Oh, the places you’ll go.” - Dr. Seuss

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” - Ernest Hemingway

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.” - A.A. Milne

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” - Irving Wallace

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” - T.S Eliot

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter that the outcome, he will know he has been alive.” - Walt Disney

“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” - Wilfred Peterson

“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” - Ewan Mcgregor

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” - Marty Rubin

“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” - A.A. Milne

“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” - Stephen Covey

“If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans… When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.” - Wilfrid Noyce

“We live in a wonderful world that is filled with beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” - Jawaharlal Nethru

“Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable’, but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe but outside your comfort zone.” - Bear Grylls

“You can’t call it an adventure unless it’s tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we’ve all got to go after our own Everest.” - Brian Blessed

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Hidden : 1/9/2023
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Rooisand Nature Reserve is an 8.2km lightly trafficked loop trail located between Kleinmond and Fisherhaven, that features a lake and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking and bird watching.

Gate times: Sunrise to Sunset

For as long as the older Kleinmond residents can remember, there have been Wild Horses in the vlei (wetlands) between the present parking area in the Rooisand Reserve and the river mouth at Kleinmond. This is a distance of about 6kms and the group of free roaming, feral horses use this area as their grazing grounds. They never venture outside the wetland and the adjacent dunes, and they can be seen either from the tarred road, or more closely observed, if one walks along the beach towards Fisherhaven.

Their existence has given rise to a number of fanciful theories and romantic tales about their origins. One of these is that they are the descendants of horses hidden from the British Army during the Anglo Boer War (1899-1902). According to Dr. van der Merwe, however, who has been observing the horses for the past 30-odd years, they appear to be a unique sub-group of the erstwhile Cape Horse of the 18th and 19th centuries, called Boland Waperd, which were farm horses used for ploughing, hoeing and pulling wagons and carts. They are therefore of significant historical importance, and according to ecologists, they have an important role as large herbivores, living in the swampy estuary of the Bot River.

Here they fulfil a useful role in the wetland ecology as large animals who feed on a variety of edible plants species, and who tread footpaths through the reed beds, thus assisting in keeping the waterways open.

Please note that there is no guarantee that you will see the wild horses as they roam freely in a large area, some of which is dense. 

Once you have completed the trail, it is recommended that you also check out the bird hide down the boardwalk from the parking. (The horses have also been spotted there before)

 

Note: The walking paths can be quite waterlogged in the rainy season so be prepared to get wet - ankle deep. 

Note: The sand road in from the main road can be tricky, and while it can be accessed by any vehicle, caution should be exercised after lots of rain as large puddles form.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)