Picnic at Noordhoek Common

Lovely sitting at Noordhoek Common with our best friends, eating, drinking a bit of wine and chatting. Not as remote as Silvermine as curious dogs, with owner in tow, show much interest in our food and come sniffing around us friendly and hopeful!  

Noordhoek Common is vast and surrounded by mountains. I find the area energising and uplifting and whenever I've been there I'm relaxed, happy, joyful and grateful.

How beautiful is this for a picnic?

The field next to the common is used for horses to graze and frolic and watching them gives me such a sense of freedom.

This little stream runs through the common. There is a bench right next to it where we put all our picnic stuff and bags. Very comfy!

It was such a beautiful day we decided to end it with a walk on Noordhoek beach. There were many people who had the same idea and it was busy, but the beach is so vast that people tend to vanish among the sand and dunes.

We sat on the bench at the top of the beach and watched the sun as it disappeared into the sea.

Went home happy and full of sun, sea, trees, dogs and horses not to mention a tiny bit of wine!

Picnic at Silvermine

The beauty of a family picnic in peaceful, glorious Silvermine with absolutely no-one around, but just surrounded by trees, birds, miles of green, a babbling stream with  darting tadpoles and singing frogs, a wooden bridge, rolls, fruit salad and coffee. Everyone chilled and doing just what they please. Jack and I went exploring the bridge, then Joel showed him the tadpoles in the water. Cathy tried to stuff some food in his mouth but there were too many other things to learn about to think about food. Tony found a spot to read his book. What fun!