With only six legs, they are insects Spring is in the air and once you have experienced The Forest throughout a full Summer, you will be better-informed, to more fully understand the complexities of The Insect population on The Clivia Trail. Stand and listen and look for the many insects that inhabit the trail. They […]
Tangle with the Vines The Clivia Trail is festooned with multiple climbing, dangling, intertwining, and engulfing species of forest vines. Little is known about these many vine and Lianas types and how they advantage the several communities that inhabit the sub-tropical, high-canopy rainforests. As you embark on your Clivia Trail walk, you will be surrounded, […]
Become a Fern Fan Moist, damp, high-canopy rainforests, invite the Fern Community to take up residence in their environment. Here on The Clivia Trailin the Mabitsi Valley, we are blessed with numerous members of this remarkable and welcoming community of different Ferns. We have established many resting places and benches along the trail, overlooking the […]
Carpets of Green and Patches of Grey There are grey rugs and carpets of green in The Forest, with every soft texture one could wish for. All of this offered by the thick, lush pile of Mosses and decorative Lichens that adorn this heavenly environment. As though designed by Forest Decorators, the Lichens are depicted, […]
Become mushroom wise Fungi are mysterious and perhaps unjustifiably regarded with some degree of suspicion. The world of fungi and their fascinating parents, the mushrooms, are perhaps the most important community of living organisms on earth. More plant-like than animal-like, fungi that live and thrive in the forest topsoil, in the leaf-mulch and on dead […]
You too can become a Twitcher The Wild Bird Trust have The Cape Parrot Project under their auspices and have offices here on Amorentia Estate. Their organization is involved with Cape Parrot research, in collaboration with local bird enthusiasts. The Cape Parrot is honored to have been nominated as Bird of the Year for 2023. […]
Alive, Furry and Secretive There are remarkable communities of animals living on The Clivia Trail, each contributing their own secretive balance to the Forest environment. TheClivia Trail is the home of the Samango Monkey, the Bushpig, Porcupine, Bushbuck and Grey Duiker and families of Honey Badgers. In addition, there are Lynx, Genet, White Tailed Mongoose, […]
Pillars of the Forest Cathedral Thousands of years ago, there were architects who dwelt in the rainforest. Seeds germinated and 20-meter-high, tree-pillars grew and created a unique canopy above the Forest floor. The very word primeval forest describes the state of a forest environment. For the first time, we are privileged to enter and traverse […]
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