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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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Orchards and vineyards

Morning dawned bright and colourful and spent an early night after our amazing Wolfberg hike with my sister and the family. After a leisurely cup of coffee, overlooking the flowery valley where we wok...

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Sep 11, 2020

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Cederberg Cracks

As we had been advised that Wolfberg Cracks would be a serious hike, we got up early and- because Trokkie is slightly slower than a landcruiser- we sent my sister ahead for permits and caught up with ...

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Sep 10, 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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Sep 7, 2020

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Biggest quiver tree forest in Southern Hemisphere

Marianne (one of our morning visitors in Niewoudtville when parked amongst the flower fields ) had told us about a waterfall and quiver tree forest just north of Niewoudtville and after our botanical ...

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Sep 6, 2020

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Flower explosion in Namaqualand

September is spring time in South Africa and one of the not-to-miss things to see is the flower explosion in Namaqualand . We had been in Namaqualand some 35 years ago (remember nothing much about tha...

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Sep 5, 2020

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Vineyards, semi-desert and quiver trees

Because we had not been able to do the Quiver Loop inside the Augrabies National Park this time around (which is a 91km round trip on gravel road), in camp we had searched for other places to see quiv...

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Sep 4, 2020

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Augrabies Falls

From Kanoneiland we continued to Kakamas and Augrabies Falls . A trend we saw in Kanoneiland and we continued to see all the way up to Augrabies was the vast expanse of vineyards. It was quite amazing...

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Sep 2, 2020

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Arid land vs Orange River

Sishen After our "petrol station free camp" we continued south towards Olifantsfontein and passed the massive Sishen mine set-up on the right. An aerial shot (courtesy of Google Earth) shows just how ...

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Sep 1, 2020

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Ominous skies and graveyards

D (departure) Day Eventually – 1 September 2020 – D (departure) Day had arrived. Start of Spring in South Africa, had been the goal to coincide with our “Start Of Road Trip” and we made it … kinda! Th...

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Aug 31, 2020

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