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Brandberg and Fairy Circles

We left Uis and made camp close to the start of the White Lady hike . We all went exploring a bit around the camp site and found different spoor and tracks: elephant and giraffe being the most promine...

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Sep 13, 2021

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Golden Gate National Park to Cape Town

We left Witsieshoek and drove towards Bloemfontein via Golden Gate National Park , which was as beautiful as always. I especially love the grasslands! It was dark when we eventually entered Bloemfonte...

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May 20, 2021

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Sentinel and Tugela Falls

We left Monk’s Cowl in quite overcast conditions which luckily cleared mid morning when we passed through bright and yellow fields. We took a short break at the Sterkfontein Dam , peaceful and azure i...

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May 15, 2021

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KZN North Coast part 3: Lake St Lucia and Cape Vidal

Our trip from Sodwana to St lucia took us via Hluhluwe, where we made a quick stop to do some shopping. As we packed everything away in the truck and were preparing to get on the road again we saw an ...

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Apr 20, 2021

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KZN North Coast part 2: Mabibi and Sodwana

When we left the Kosi Bay Lake system we drove to Mabibi Beach Camp : a very nice drive through the iSimangaliso coastal reserve, world heritage site . The first part took us through great expanses of...

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Apr 10, 2021

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Punda Maria Recovery Exercise

At our last camp of our first trip in Kruger National Park , Punda Maria, we got ourselves literally in a sticky situation. When we drove around the campsite to find a spot we liked we got stuck…. ser...

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Mar 6, 2021

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Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park

When we brought Trokkie in for her 20.000 km service, we were very relieved to see another Hino 500 booked in for its 650.000 km service. Let’s hope Trokkie can also go that long! Thanks Hino Tshwane ...

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Mar 2, 2021

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Addo Elephant Park

You can’t be in Port Elizabeth and not visit Addo Elephant Park , a mere 70km away. So that’s what we did… once on our own and once with the granddaughters. As we have lived in P.E. for more than 20 y...

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Dec 20, 2020

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Stonehenge and Tankwa Karoo

After sitting around for the last month or two with longer and shorter trips in and around Cape Town, we got a renewal of the garage plates we are currently driving with, and left for Tankwa. We’ve al...

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Dec 12, 2020

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West Coast National and Fossil Parks

As we were still hovering around in Cape Town (waiting for truck stuff to be sorted) we took a drive to the West Coast Fossil Park via the R27 and passed the south entrance to the West Coast National ...

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Dec 10, 2020

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Cape Point lighthouse

Seeing we were in Cape Town for an undetermined time, we spent some more time with my sister and the family. Besides the occasional braai, she invited us to go and explore Cape Point National Park , p...

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Sep 17, 2020

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Fifty shades of green (and other colours)

After Lee’s birthday celebrations, they spent a few days with family and we got to do some more work at Trokkie in Gavin’s workshop. There are always millions of little (and big) things that we need t...

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Sep 13, 2020

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