Blogs from Northern Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 3

Driving north through ever changing scenery: from dramatically rising mountainscape through lush rolling countryside with orchards and vineyards; and finally the desert – endless stretches of red earth streaked with luminous yellow grass, bordered by the ethereal purple bluish hue of distant mountains. I am racing against the clock because I know they are closing around three and this is the only day I have up here. At one o’clock still nothing. I stop at a little tourist information place in a one-horse-town; there they direct me off the main road. Another 50km or so. It’s a dirt track, dusty and slow. And then, just as I’m starting to wonder why I’m doing this, I see it, one of the great spectacles of nature: flowers, carpets of them, covering the desert floor, flooding it with an ... read more

Hi all, we are now at port nollith a campsite called Mac dougalls bay after a stop over at Springbok, what is it with these municaple parks, after staying in a private park it is realy a let down to come to one of these parks, thay generally have awsome parks but very run down, no maintenance and shabby ablutions, well enough moaning. Once again the gremlins were with us, after leaving Clan william all went well for 80 km. then buksie started over heating, it was a very hot day 30 + so we unhitched buksietjie and Wanda had to drive her and i drove buksie but to no avail, just kept on over heating, so we decided to stop over at Springbok to sort out the problem, unfortunatly there isnt much in the way ... read more

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Hi all, we have arived at tieties bay after 2 potensial trip enders, firstly coming down Ou kaapse weg our brakes decided we were over loaded and to heavy to stop and we nearly wiped out a couple of cars waiting at a robot, and when we arived at tieties bay the tow hitch on the back of buksie was only just hanging on, the nylock nuts holding the hitch had worked itself lose, well you can never be to carefull is what I have learnt. Tieties bay is a beutiful place to stay, there are only 4 other campers here so lots of of space for all, there is no hot water or electricity so it is back to basics, thank goodness for buksies hot water, we are not sure yet how long we are ... read more

On the way to Namib After a wonderful two days with Anton, Petro and their 2 kids Tristan(2) and Zarna (4) (Sarahs Cousins) - in Langebaan staying in the ultimate beach house we are now on our way north. Langebaan was wind plus - up to 30 knots - I kited in perfect conditions and the kids and Sarah fell in love with the town and beach house... amazing - a kite destination that the kids love !!! Finally Nirvana has been found. We drove our 4WD last night deep into Cederberg National Park and had a great camp on a river, swam and slept under trees getting buffeted by wind gusts up to 40 knots. Not alot of sleep but an amazing setting Now 1 hours drive from the Namibian Border heading for Fish River ... read more