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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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Perth

After the first part of our 2019 – 2020 family holiday and a flight hampered by smoke from the bush fires on the East side of the country, we arrived in Perth and were greeted with hugs and balloons a...

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Jan 15, 2020

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Noosa Christmas Trip

From the onset of our 2019-2020 holiday in Oz, we knew that Peter and Jacinta and baby Louis wanted to go to Noosa in Queensland for a Christmas Holiday break with family at the East Coast. Although o...

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Dec 18, 2019

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Outback Uluru Road trip

A year or two ago, while in Australia visiting kids and grandkids, we read somewhere an article promoting “Field of Lights” at Uluru (Ayers Rock), an installation of British artist Bruce Munro … , on ...

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Dec 1, 2019

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Rock art road trip

In December 2018, Erika and family visited South Africa for the first time after their move to Jamaica. Christmas is the magic time and having missed out on the festive season with the family in 2017,...

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Dec 1, 2018

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Jamaica

In June 2017 daughter Erika and her family moved to Jamaica for a new job (husband Pat) and adventure (the whole family) so we had a new holiday destination. In August 2018 we jumped on a plane to see...

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Aug 1, 2018

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South Africa and Lesotho

One of the places to visit that has been on our bucket list for a long time is Lesotho , a small independent country surrounded by South Africa. Not only did we want to take on the renowned Sani Pass,...

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Jun 1, 2018

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Durban South Coast

Another trip to Kwazulu Natal, saw us going south to see the Red Desert, the Mpenjati Nature Reserve and the Oribi Gorge. Day 1 A drive of just under 2 hours brought us to Port Edward, location of the...

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