Kareedouw Church flowers
I love the bright red flowers vs blue sky colour contrasts in this photo I took of the historic Dutch Reformed Church in Kareedouw in the Langkloof.
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07/01/2015
Addo Palace Ndebele Private Reserve pictorial
Just before peak season hit us I was on a social media workshop road trip in the Karoo and Addo areas. The night before the workshop in Addo I got to stay at Addo Palace in the Ndebele Private Reserve bordering the Addo Elephant National Park. It's always nice to stay and experience somewhere new and this was no different. Ndebele Private Resevre is a 2500 acre game farm in the foothills of the Zuurberg Mountains and about 30 minutes…
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05/01/2015
Kareedouw Dutch Reformed Church
Kareedouw is the first town you encounter when you travel into the Langkloof on Route 62 from the Port Elizabeth side. The name is thought to come from the KhoiSan word !karegadaob which means "A road past many Karee Trees".Kareedouw was established in 1905 as a Dutch Reformed Church congregation and I am assuming that is also the year that the church was built. If not then in the few years just after. I say assuming because I just can't seem to…
02/01/2015
Goodbye 2014 – watch out 2015, here I come
Is it just me or did 2014 fly past at the speed of light. A year ago I had no idea what this year had in store for me and now, 12 months later I look back at a year of many highs but it also a couple of real lows, specially at the end. There is always more one would like to have been able to do, but 2014 has laid the foundation for 2015 to be an even more…
01/01/2015
Patensie panorama
The town of Patensie in the Gamtoos Valley is surrounded by beautiful scenery. Rolling hills, distant mountains, citrus and vegetable farmland, valley thicket, guest farms and some of the friendliest people you will find anywhere.
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30/12/2014
Ziplining in the Tsitsikamma
Imagine flying over a waterfall, across a river valley or down a river gorge. All of that is possible at the Tsitsikamma Falls Adventures zipline east of Storms River. Visitors get to zig-zag across the Kruis River right next to the N2 and the whole experience only takes about an hour. It means that there is no excuse not to stop and experience one of the activities that make the Tsitsikamma the adventure hub of the Garden Route. I've been fortunate enough…
27/12/2014
Wolwefontein Hotel
The sleepy village of Wolwefontein lies on the road between Port Elizabeth and Graaff-Reinet and only exists because the railway line runs through it. Over the last few decades a lot of railway stations have closed down due to the decline of the railway system in South Africa but it seems that Wolwefontein is holding on for dear life. I pulled over onto its dusty streets for a quick look on the way to Graaff-Reinet the other day and discovered…
21/12/2014
A Pale Chanting Goshawk in Addo
I have never been a big bird expert. When I started working as a tourist guide I went to a lot of effort to increase my birding knowledge, but a LBJ (little brown job) and an Overtheroadian were still the most common answers I gave when something flashed across the road as we drove along somewhere. Addo Elephant National Park has a bird checklist of over 400 species with about 200 occurring within the main game area. In all the years that I…
16/12/2014
Waiting for the sevens
Late last week I got to go on a pre Nelson Mandela Bay Sevens Instawalk around the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium as the final touches was being put in place for this weekend's #NMB7s tournament. I've been to the stadium so many times before and I was looking for something slightly different and I kinda like the result I got just by changing the angle a little bit.
14/12/2014
Scenic views of Patensie and surrounds
A couple of weeks ago I spent a couple of days touring around the Eastern Cape with a group of journalists and one of our stops was in the Gamtoos Valley town of Patensie. After a visit at the Malan Cucumber Farm we were taken up to their new cucumber tunnels on a koppie outside town and I snapped these pictures of the view. The Gamtoos Valley truly is a very scenic and undiscovered area with most visitors just heading…
09/12/2014
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