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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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Franschoek Pass and a dam or two

When we left Lamberts Bay , we took some more gravel roads to slowly make our way back to Cape Town. Somewhere halfway between Lamberts Bay and Piketberg we passed yet another massive solar installati...

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Nov 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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Swartberg Pass and Die Hel

After we had left Route 62 at Calitzdorp and passed through the Nels River valley, we arrived at the foot of the Swartberg Pass. (watch here various videos of the Swartberg pass, courtesy of Mountain ...

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Oct 9, 2020

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Whale Coast

Seeing we still had to sort out some administrative stuff for the truck, we left the Belville workshop in the last week of October, sorted out (part of) our stuff near Somerset West and headed towards...

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Oct 2, 2020

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Jonkershoek Waterfall Hike

One Sunday, together with our friends Gavin and Lee (we were still working at Trokkie at their workshop) we joined my sister Lut and husband Gerhard for a tasting day in the winelands. Gerhard’s broth...

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Oct 1, 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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Of penguins and vineyards

When in Cape Town do what the Capetonians do: wine tasting and sight seeing. And that’s exactly what we did, plus more. One day we went for a drive into wine country and made a stop at Elgin Railway M...

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Sep 12, 2020

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Piketberg, Citrusdal and Cederberg Wilderness

After our R&R day of catching up with washing, cleaning, and sorting out various odds and ends, we woke up to a cloudy and thunderous looking sunrise. After our morning coffee, we left Leentjiesklip i...

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Sep 9, 2020

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West Coast R&R

After our Cederberg adventure, our first morning on the West Coast came bright and sunny, be it still very cold. We took a walk on the beach, grabbed a couple of mussels and had a mid morning mussel-b...

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Sep 8, 2020

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Majestic Cederberg

After our visit to the Gannabos quiver tree forest and a night around the fire at a nearby bush camp we headed back south in the direction of Wupperthal and the Cederberg Mountains. We made a short st...

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