rhodes

Last Saturday morning I took myself on a little hike up to Rhodes Memorial. Wanted a bit of quiet time by myself to take this hike, but unfortunately I soon found out that it was a very popular tourist destination so I was most certainly not alone on this excursion (do not fret my dear parents!).

To enter into this great escape you simply catch a Jammie to the main campus a then you see the latter below right on the side of the street. It crosses over a fence into this not-so-forbidden forest to enter into the part of campus that is almost like a nature reserve in itself. It's UCT's own Bridge to Terabithia.

It is then a short hike--no more than ten minutes--up to the memorial site. It's incredible too because as you continue up Table Mountain/Devil's Peak you can't even see Rhodes at all, then suddenly it appears out almost out of nowhere.

Alas, I stumbled upon this perfection. When I first arrived there were a slew of angsty tourists so that did not make for suitable photo opportunities. 

And this cheesin' is for the ma and pops!

Thus, I had to wait a good while and be attentive to sneak photos when no one walked by.

The view from base of the memorial.

And the view from the top.

And quite clearly, the most epic of all of the scenery is this statue of a horseman, a work called Energy. The scene does drama on its own.

Almost managed to not get anyone in this one :(

Lovely day roaming off campus. Next goal is to make it up here at sunrise! We shall see haha.