Sable Ranch 3.0

What a treat this past two weekends, after a long time not being in the mountains.

The last time I did a difficult trail was over six months ago. I was worried I won’t be able to finish 10km easily, but I did with ease, I guess the girl still got it. The first three kilometers were hectic, we kept on hoping to get to the flat surface it was not happening.  I have been here before, but it has been a while. I forgot how long the steep was with huge rocks to maneuver. In my head I kept on thinking where is a chicken run route, 😀 knowing exactly that I won’t even take it. Mind over matter shenanigans.

If you have read my previous blogs, I have written about this place before, like I have done so many times with other places. It is amazing how different stories come out of the same place, love it. The hiking trail is a two part farm, you start hiking from the Noble Village side that’s where you find restaurants, obstacle courses where you can do team building activities or just groups of people who want to have fun. Also 4*4 trails along the hiking trail proceeding into another farm Sable Ranch. Sable Ranch has beautiful Sables of course and accommodation to stay over. This time we spotted Zebra and baboons. What we get to experience in these mountains is a treat. After we hiked I looked at the people we found at the restaurant who just came to eat and I was thinking to myself; ‘I know you are in this beautiful peaceful space but we saw way better.’Anyway different things for different people right!.✅

I was invited by Pumza, partner in shenanigans, to join her hiking group.  I love the dynamics of that group, you never know what you getting every time you are with them. Without fail I always meet new people. The rest I have not seen in over six months and they were happy to see me, so was I, nothing but love. I made Pumza late because I wanted us to pass by our favourite petrol station to get best fat cakes. I spoke to her during that week that this past winter I didn’t get to hike towards that part of town, therefore we have to go buy them one last time. Can I tell you by the time we finished talking about these fatcakes almost everyone wanted directions to the fatcake place. LOL. One thing about fat cakes, they taste better during winter, summer nahh.

There are two of my favorites spots on this property;  a lovely peaceful dam surrounded by green grass and there is outdoor furniture next to the dam and it’s quite inviting ☺️. It is so gorgeous I always picture myself seating there all by myself with a book and watching sunset. We chilled there and took pictures and fooled around a bit : another spot is a picnic spot, situated under these large and amazing huge , it has fireplace to use for braai also kitchenet of some sort. The shade and free aircon under those trees are great.

When we finished our hike, we literally took over the parking lot, opened car boots, camping chairs out and great conversations kept on going. After an hour I decided I wanted to go to our favourite spot, in haarties, it is a 35 to 40 minute drive from where we were. Everyone thought we were crazy, but yet again they know that the two of us together can drive around the whole day without care of time. We got to the farmers market, got some lunch and did some shopping and off we went. Lovely day well spent, my body, soul, mind were very happy. Mission accomplished.

Until next time Fabtastic People

Moira