Disa Kloof is the short one, and it is here because of what it does rather than how far it goes. It is a very easy short trail, 950 m from the garden entrance up the kloof to the waterfall, about thirty minutes each way. What matters is the surface: the whole route is accessible to wheelchair users and to parents pushing prams, which is rare enough on this coast to be the point of the page. The garden lends two wheelchairs free at the entrance gate.
Harold Porter sits at the foot of the Kogelberg mountains in Betty’s Bay, on the corner of Clarence Drive and Broadwith Road, and it is open every day of the year. Admission is payable at the gate. The walk leaves from the entrance and follows the kloof up to the falls, through cultivated garden that gives way to the natural fynbos estate behind it. If you come between late December and the end of January, the red disas are flowering in this kloof.
Do not confuse it with Leopard’s Kloof, the other waterfall walk in the same garden. That one needs a permit and a key collected before one in the afternoon, and it climbs river crossings and a series of ladders. Disa Kloof asks nothing of you but half an hour, and ordinary shoes will do.
