WHAT OUR HILLS ARE MADE OF

The hills rising above Grahamstown – a road running along the top is called Mountain Drive – are called the Rietberge.

Driving down the winding Woest Hill Pass leading towards Southwell and the coast near Port Alfred, it is interesting to see what the cuttings expose of what lies underneath the rounded hills covered with grass and patches of natural forest.

The tilted layers of rock suggest movement aeons ago; of dipping and lifting; perhaps being covered by water and being raised high above it.

Here is a view of the pass from above.