Thanks to all of you who have commented positively on my remarks and photos of our Eastern Cape trip. After Satansnek we traveled to Maclear through the rain. On the next day we were to be guided by Adele Moore who is an expert on orchids in the area. This part of the trip had been rained out before and we were keeping our fingers crossed. A portion of the road was flooded as we drove. It was a bit like traveling in a boat, not a car. But luck was with us as that night the rain stopped and we saw a wonderful rainbow. Maclear is in a beautiful valley in the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains in the Eastern Cape. It is mostly grassland. The next day the weather was better and the water had soaked in the road and we were able to be guided by Adele. It happened to be my birthday and I was allowed to expand the number of favorite plants we could pick at the end of the day. Usually we voted on one favorite. We saw many orchids, but also some other spectacular plants. This is one of the reasons for the delay in posting another report. It has been taking me a very long time to resize our photos and to come up with the text for many of these plants were not previously included on the wiki. At the end of the day I asked to let us pick four plants since there were so many to choose from. We chose a Protea, Protea dracomontana, which was really spectacular as we found a large population with great variety of colors and forms, Pachycarpus campanulatus which was a fascinating plant we had to lie on our backs to photograph, (neither subjects for this group) and two geophytic orchids, Disa cornuta, and Eulophia welwitschii. Because there are so many plants we saw that day to share with you I have decided to make a Maclear page to save you having to look at many different links and I have split the species onto three pages. I'm not finished yet, but here is the first one that shows photos from A to D. Most of the photos were taken on the same day, but there were a few I put on this page that were already on the wiki from Cameron. He took those photos in February when he led Ellen Hornig and friends on a Maclear day. On today's wiki page are pictured these orchids: 5 species of Disa, 4 species of Disperis and a Corycium seen on this day. The Brownleea was photographed later in the year on Ellen's trip. We also saw the first of many Cyrtanthus epiphyticus and the very attractive Dierama reynoldsii. <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> Mary Sue