Hot and sweaty

I set my alarm for 7 this morning, as I wanted to walk up the Helderberg(www.helderbergnaturereserve.co.za) which is one of the fantastic mountain near by, I luckily met one of the staff at the park, who told me which way up was vaguely safe, and told me to take down the number for mountain rescue, and off I went with my two litres of water, and an apple and a banana. It was lovely seeing two types of buck at the bottom(), and a huge tortoise, sitting in the middle of the road, I felt it was going to be a interesting walk. Later on I saw a rock rabbit, which I only just caught a glimpse of, interestingly more closely related to elephants than anything else. I also saw a red stripey thing which looked like a cricket, heard interesting bugs, which sounded like two marbles being hit together( very happy when I realised the sound was in the air, i.e. it wasn't a snake!). I was originally only planning to go to the start of the crag, but found the path and kept on going up, this was the point where the easy path disappeared, I had to scramble up rocks every so often( being careful not to put my hands on spiky stuff), walk on slanted paths( with slippy mud). The view was fantastic from the top, you could see for miles, and loads of mountains all around, and the sea in the not so far distance, and the big GB sign above Gordon's Bay. The journey down was good fun, as placed my hand on a rock seeing a reptiles head between a bit of the rock, and again relieved when I realised it was as scared of me as I it, plus more importantly it was a small lizard. I did when I got to flatter stuff, 'run' down which was fun, having to carefully step on the right place, when I almost tripped over once, I thought it was time to stop!I finished the walk by 12( and after 2litres of water) , but had been very hot and sweaty since 8.30 in the morning, and really enjoyed sitting in Jacuzzi, with the water jets on.