The Otter Trail

By: Alison Westwood
19 February 2010
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Naming South Africa’s most popular hiking trail after a cute, furry, clawless animal was a diabolical exercise in false advertising: there’s nothing soft about the the Otter Trail.




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  1. Peter Smith says:
    March 4, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Hi there Alison, recently put a tick under the done column next to the Otter Trail. Something I was never sure I would be able to do as I am incapable of organizing myself well enough to book 14 months in advance. At a dinner party an Otter Trail regular suggested I phone for a cancellation, we did, and we had the choice of 3 dates which suited. To round up a posse of 6 was easy and we were away within 6 weeks! I proudly admit to contraving a SANPARKS law by taking our 10 yr old daughter along, our son 12 made the minimum age. They were the real heroes of our trip and I am hugely proud of them.We came clean at the end and she was congratulated by equally impressed rangers. We saw baby Otters, Loeries, Dolphins, and Sharks and at least once a day some other folk. On arrival at the beach in Nature’s Valley my wife was so overcome she burst into tears – she should have saved those tears for the meal at a local that was to follow, won’t elaborate. Where to from the Otter is the question……well THE OTTER?

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  2. Alison Westwood says:
    March 5, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Hi Peter – Congratulations on completing the Otter, particularly to your son and daughter. It sounds like you did it with a bit more panache than I did

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  3. Grizzly says:
    June 26, 2011 at 12:00 am

    Dude, right on there brtehor.

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  4. Eddie says:
    June 27, 2011 at 12:00 am

    I’ll try to put this to good use imemdaitely.

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  5. Wednesday says:
    June 27, 2011 at 12:00 am

    Good to see a tleant at work. I can?t match that.

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