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Goodbye Botswana...Hello South Africa

Our last stop in Botswana was Palapye where we needed to take a PCR test before being able to enter South Africa again. The PCR test was a quick and painless process and by 9am the following morning, ...

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Jan 4, 2022

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Boteti River, saltpans and elephants

We spent our last night in Maun, sleeping somewhere along the road side and then we set out into the direction of Francistown. As said… the exorbitant park fees for Trokkie had made any visit to parks...

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Nov 5, 2021

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Dead Sea Swimhole and Cape Cross Seals

We eventually left foggy Henties and the ocean behind and headed towards the desert. We have figured out already that, no matter where we go, signage in is not always what we expect. We had calculated...

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Sep 10, 2021

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Luderitz and Kolmanskop

The biggest bugger about this Sperrgebiet thing is the inaccessibility of places: roads to places like Oranjemund and Luderitz are one way in and same way out… a few 100’s km there and back, because t...

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Aug 21, 2021

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St Helena Bay

Most of June / July we hung around in Cape town, alternating between having work done at Trokkie by C&A Products and parking in front of my sister’s house to spend the weekend together. But by mid Jul...

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Jul 5, 2021

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KZN North Coast part 4: Richards Bay to Durban

Just south of Mtubatuba and St Lucia lies Richards Bay , the deepest natural harbour of Africa. Stefaan had read something about a Pelican Island so… off we went. We put it into the GPS and eventually...

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May 1, 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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KZN North Coast part 1: Kosi Bay

A few years ago we had done a weekend road trip to Kosi Bay , part of the iSimangaliso Unesco World Heritage Site , and we liked it so much it had been on our bucket list to do with Trokkie. Leaving t...

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Apr 7, 2021

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Port Elizabeth Family Visit

Our time in Port Elizabeth was focused on family and Christmas time with Erika, Patrick and the two girls, who were visiting from Jamaica. As always when kids and grandkids visit, the grandparents hap...

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Dec 18, 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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Bird Island Lamberts Bay

One of the things that has been on our bucket list: a photo of Trokkie with Table Mountain in the background. And as far as we were concerned, Bloubergstrand is the best spot for that. It was a beauti...

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Nov 5, 2020

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