hosted by Zelda Welgemoed Unleash Your Creative Spirit at The Cavern with our Mandala Dot Art Painting Course – Discover the dot artist within you. The colours and the canvas await. Nestled within the majestic embrace of the northern Drakensberg lies a haven of artistic wonder. Here, where the mountains whisper their secrets, you’ll find
We recently hosted forager, Nikki Brighton, for a Wild and Weedy Weekend. The season has been particularly dry, so there was not as much uncultivated food lurking in the corners of our garden as she hoped but we did find plenty of guta kola and slender celery. Fortunately, the veggie garden at Sungabala had lots
It’s been a hectically busy few weeks taking on many more commitments than we should but Drakensberg living is a little bit like that – we become the Jack of all trades and the masters of very few! This keeps life busy and interesting and possibly best is that it is very fulfilling. Keeping busy
The 19th May was our paternal grandmother’s birthday. The Big5Hike has always landed close to this date and incidentally it was on her 103rd (heavenly) birthday that we did our first Big5 fundraiser. And our target was R103 thousand rand. Ruth has always been my ultimate warrior. She was widowed after 13 short years of
It’s 2023 and it feels as though we go from one crisis to the next. There seems little reprieve from the bashes and it’s hard to keep positive and upbeat. Surround yourself with positive people, take a walk in nature, shut out the gloom. All such good advice but properly difficult at the moment. How
We had typical summer weather, mostly sunny for morning walks, stormy in the afternoons. All the migrants have arrived, even including a Willow Warbler – unusual at this altitude. Several Violet-backed Starlings spent much of the days picking over the trunk of a Dais tree right in front of the garden balcony. It looked as
For over 80 years we have called The Cavern home. To us, it’s the great outdoors. It’s the place of many happy returns. It’s our gathering spot, it’s a space for reconnection and its greatest appeal is its ability to restore. There is nothing quite like a mountain, its vastness and its beauty to heal
Foraging Weekend with Nikki Brighton Nikki is a forager, locavore, and activist who lives a creative life and believes that we should all eat more weeds – that is the nutrient dense food and medicine which is growing all around us. During lockdown her fame as a weed eater grew widely – mostly due to
Inspiration comes in many forms. It’s the quiet word of encouragement, it’s the oozing of well dones and then it’s the great people who motivate us. Mandela Day is an opportunity to do a little bit of good. 67 minutes of good and it is fabulous to see how many people across the globe mark
Growing up at The Cavern has been an enormous privilege. We were surrounded by a large family, many events and happenings and wonderful tales of those that had visited before. The art, that has been collected over many years, makes this resort a special home and it is the collection of Alan Wolton’s work which
