There is only one way to truly appreciate the amazing diversity and breathtaking beauty of the flowers that occur in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, and that is on any or all of the Park’s walking trails. This is a gallery of just some of the fragile blooms we enjoyed while exploring the Park during our December bush holidays.
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Floral splendour at Golden Gate Highlands National Park
We’ll be dedicating upcoming installments of de Wets Wild to three of Golden Gate’s easiest walking trails.
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Nice! I have just visited the Golden Gate National Park and will be posting. I will also link to your blog
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Welcome, Candy! Golden Gate’s one of our favourite places and we hope you had a brilliant time there?
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I love wildflowers. Great pictures.
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Thank you very much Sonya!
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Lovely. Some of these are very similar to Australian wild flowers, shared ancestry I guess from when it was all Gondwana.
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I’m sure you are absolutely correct Maamej!
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maybe 😉
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Die klein juweeltjies van die veld is pragtig. Die suurtjies laat my terugdink aan kindertyd toe ons dit geëet het. Dis so suur jy moet jou gesig trek. (hier is hul ook, as hul kans kry maak hul reuse blare en stele om bo plantegroei uit te kom na die lig!)
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Ek wens ek het die veldplante beter geken, dat ek ook sou kon weet watter mens aan kan proe. Nou bly ek maar aan die veilige kant, sodat ek nie myself vergif nie 😀
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Snaaks genoeg vroëer het die mense tog maar die wilde plante gebruik vir allerhande dinge. Hul het darem geweet watter is moeilikheid soek en watter nie
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Stadig maar seker raak daai kennis verlore, regtig jammer
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Sjoe, die vygies en veldblomme is te pragtig. Ai, die natuur is darm ‘n lafenis vir die siel.
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Ongetwyfeld Spokie, en hoe stadiger mens dit vat en hoe fyner jy kyk, des te meer!
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Ai Dries – daar is ‘n groot geheim vasgevang in hierdie woorde van jou.
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So beautiful!
janet
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Thanks Janet!
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Pragtig soos gewoonlik
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Ai, baie dankie Tina!
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Absolutely gorgeous! 🙂 Thanks for sharing these pics.
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Thank you for paying us another visit!
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When I’m walking outdoors in nature’s splendor, it’s so easy to overlook the little unobstrusive flowers. As always, your photos are beautiful and a reminder to occasionally notice the small details 🙂
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That’s so true Joanne! When you find yourself in a grand landscape, like Golden Gate, it is so easy to keep marvelling upwards at the majesty that towers over you that the small things at our feet pass unnoticed.
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Will be going through there on my Bike on Sunday! Good times ahead…
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Lucky you!
Geniet dit en veilig ry!
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Very pretty! Only a few are similar to anything we have here. I’d love to walk those trails!
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I’m sure you’d find loads to enjoy while walking at Golden Gate and I hope our posts to follow in the next week will show a small slice of what the Park has to offer!
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looks like Spring is in full bloom
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It was the height of summer Sedge, and sadly autumn is now rapidly closing in here…
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Beautiful, colorful wildflower photos! 🙂
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Glad to know you found our bright blooms to your liking, Amy!
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Is this actually contemporary, Dries ? Or maybe from a month or two ago ?
It is certainly mind-bogglingly beautiful ! 🙂
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These are from our trip to Golden Gate around New Year M-R. Golden Gate was our final destination of seven on our three week December holidays; we’ve been sharing highlights of that trip since January.
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You always eke out your holiday photos to make it seem like your lives are one extended period of festivity. [grin]
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We have to somehow find a way to brighten the weeks in the city, between our bushtrips, M-R 😀
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And you do it damned well ! [grin]
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Thank you Margaret-Rose!
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Very nice post guys; we love the wildflowers and learned to appreciated them as an important part of life in the bush. It’s not always about the ‘hairiest and scariest’ as you mentioned in an earlier post indeed – and with many rich biodiversity hotspots SA has an extremely rich plant life. Looking forward seeing more!
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Thanks Maurice! We’ve found long ago that taking a “wider” view makes time spent out in nature so much more enriching.
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Tog te mooi! 😉
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Dankie AJ!
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