The Danger Point and the Danger Point Lighthouse near Gansbaai in the Overberg has a descriptive name very apt to how dangerous the coast here can really be. It doesn't looks as dangerous though when you photograph it with little pink wildflowers in the foreground.
After climbing the Danger Point Lighthouse outside Gansbaai in the Overberg in December, Drama Princess and I headed down the path towards the rocks to find a Geocache hidden nearby. As we hit the trail down we encountered this sign. Damn, those must be big spiders if there is a warning sign including them along with snakes.
South Africa has some famous lighthouses. Cape Point, Green Point, Agulhas, Great Fish and Umhlanga just to name a few. There are close to 50 lighthouse along the South African coast though and some often receive very little publicity because they are very much off the beaten track or just don't get visited as often as the well known ones. During our camping holiday at Vloedbos in the Overberg we spent one day exploring the coast between Gansbaai and Agulhas and…
I always think that the guys along the coast in the Western Cape are very fortunate because of the amount of fresh fish available to them from all the fishing harbours. Whenever we get to travel in the province we like to go and have fish and chips from a local takeaway, usually overlooking the harbour and surrounds. During December we were camping in the Overberg and did a daytrip from Gansbaai to Agulhas. Somewhere in between the Damselfly mentioned that she…
The brown stubble covered fields in the Overberg during summer isn't always perceived as the most beautiful scenery by travelers.That is until you look a little closer, especially just before sunset.
Driving through the Overberg region of the Western Cape in late winter and spring you are met with rolling hills covered in green and yellow. By the time summer comes around the grains like wheat, oats and barley as well as the canola have been harvested leaving nothing more than field after field of brown stubble and scattered hay bales.
Road trip stories. I have many. Why? Because it's a lot more exciting than just flying to your domestic destination. So except for speed, what is the most exciting thing that could happen on an average flight? Chicken or Beef?Road tripping to Cape Town with Shefetswe and Erenei, we were driving somewhere between Caledon and Bot River in the Overberg when my eye caught something in a field next to the road. As I spotted it Shefetswe remarked, "Wow! Check the Blue Cranes."…
The Overberg landscape changes with the seasons with the best time to travel through the area being August and September. That is when you will find green grain fields with wheat, oats and barley, interspersed by yellow canola fields, in splendorous full bloom.
Road tripping often allows you to see the most interesting and unusual sights. Something you don't get wizzing overhead to your destination in a plane. The Overberg is famous for it's canola fields covered in yellow flowers in spring, otherwise green fields in spring and and brown ploughed fields ion late summer going into autumn and winter. Or that was until I saw this. Mmmm, very unusual. I don't know why but it reminded me of a couple of pictures of…
It was a late afternoon on a gloomy day, our only day, in Knysna and I was taking a walk around Leisure Isle with a couple of friends. The mission was actually one of a Geocaching kind, but two of us had our cameras with us as well and once the cache was found it became a photography trip. With not a lot of sunshine around it meant that there would be no spectacular lagoon sunset so we found ourselves…