2. day - from Robertson to Montagu

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Map - red marks show visited area of that day

Early morning at Agterkliphoogte farm

• Agterkliphoogte farm

Night was much more pleasant than the first one in Worcester, so my colleagues weren´t so frozen in the morning. Before they finished their morning coffee, I quickly had a look behind the guest house and found there beautiful large H. maxima. I took few pictures and than we quickly continued further on our way.

H. maxima, Agterkliphoogte farm

H. maxima, Agterkliphoogte farm

• Sandberg, SW. Robertson

We continued back to Robertson and on the way we shortly stopped to explore interesting hill near the road. We were lucky and met immediately farmer and he gave us permission to explore that hill. Just behind the fence was growing again H. maxima. On top of the hill I found very nice and robust form of H. maraisii. Beautiful Protea sp. was flowering near by.

H. maraisii, Agterkliphoogte farm

H. maraisii, Agterkliphoogte farm

Protea sp., Agterkliphoogte farm

• Kranskop

Our next stop was near hill called Kranskop. After long climb we found on top of that hill H. notabilis. Some of them were growing in shade, others full exposed on sun, well withdrawn in the soil. Other interesting succulents were presented. The view from top of the hill was stunning.

H. notabilis, Kranskop

¨H. notabilis, Kranskop

H. notabilis, Kranskop

Kranskop

Crassula sp, Adromischus sp., Kranskop

Euphorbia sp., Kranskop

• Ashton

Than we continued to Ashton. We have visited known locality of H. marginata, but unfortunately - no single plant was found, it seems all are gone. We have seen few interesting natural hybrids of H. marginata X H. maxima. But we found other interesting plants G. disticha, which was growing on foot of the hill and H. maraisii was higher up on slopes.

H. marginata X maxima, Ashton

H. marginata X maxima, H. maxima, Ashton

G. disticha, Ashton

G. disticha, Ashton

H. maraisii, Ashton

H. maraisii, Ashton

• Cogmanskloof

This was place were we wanted to see H. setata "cogmanensis". After not long search we found it few metres above the road. Nice small arachnoid species, which is called "cogmanensis" due to its distribution gap from other setata species. Than we stopped near old force, there were beautiful Aloe sp. and Trichodiadema sp. growing.

H. setata "cogmanensis", Cogmanskloof

H. setata "cogmanensis", Cogmanskloof

H. setata "cogmanensis", Cogmanskloof

Ornithogallum sp., Adromischus sp., Cogmanskloof

Cogmanskloof

Ledebouria sp., Oxalis sp., Cogmanskloof

Trichodiadema sp., Cogmanskloof

• near Portjieskloof dam

Last stop of that day was near Portjieskloof dam, where Bruce Bayer found nice form of H. aristata (H. arachnoidea var. nigricans). We found quite dense population of them together with G. disticha.

H. aristata, Portjieskloof

H. aristata, Portjieskloof

G. disticha, Portjieskloof

G. disticha with H. aristata, Portjieskloof

Portjieskloof

Sad view - some kind of animal has digged out and ate Gasteria and Haworthia too...

We slept at guest farm Eendoon. On the way there we have seen Blue crain, bird which is one of the symbols on South Africa. On the farm they got a couple of ostriches and emus.

Blue craine

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