I am going to get pecked!

And then we nearly hit a tortoise!

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March 11th 2010
Headed back inland this morning to the Little Karoo region. This is a scrubland area famed for its farming of lamb and Ostriches. It took about an hour and a half to get to Oudtshoorn, the last 30 minutes or so past fields of ostriches. Along the way we saw a sign warning us of tortoises in the road, I told Tim to be careful but just around the next bend he ended up having to slam the brakes on ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more