Platkloof Walk
Start and end at the entrance to the Greyton Nature Reserve at the upper end of Park Road. Go straight after having passed through the thatched-roofed gate of the Reserve, then take the first path to the left. Beyond the little waterfall with the bench you go up the valley. There fynbos fights the Dodder, a clinging yellow parasite living off green plants. This is an indigenous plant and part of nature, where everything has its place in the food chain. In the end, however, the Dodder dies because there is no food left and the original veld is rejuvenated.
Watch the birds—plenty of sugarbirds and weavers and the orange-breasted sunbird. After about a kilometre the path turns and goes up and meets the little stream which feeds the waterfall below. Cross the water, turn left and shortly right again to walk on more or less level ground above the valley. The views of Greyton and surroundings are great with Abdolskop and Perdekop in the southeast. In springtime this is the place to look for orchids: 'moedeerkappie', spider orchid and others. In March and April the hillside becomes covered in a colourful display of Erica tenuifolia, E. equisitifolia and E. Lateralis, interspersed with yellow 'geelbos' (Leucadendron salignum).
Above the Noupoortkloof the path winds down again until you reach the straight path leading back to the gate of the Reserve.