Plato Lodge 985km
2016年8月27日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Slow drive to Plato Lodge 40km from Augrabies Falls.
Passed Khi Solar One (KSO) a solar power tower solar thermal power plant, located outside Upington. Khi Solar One is 50 megawatts, and will is theもっと詳しく
Die Houthoop 546km
2016年8月28日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Very uneventful drive today. Not many flowers along the road to Springbok. Apparently the rains weren't very good this year.
Hopefully the flower volumes will improve along the coast.
Richtersberg 275km
2016年8月29日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Woke up to thick mist and about 8 degrees. In Houthoop Campsite.
Drive up through Kleinsee, Port Nolith and Alexander Bay was cool and misty.
1st night of the trip, hot and crisp white linen. 2bdもっと詳しく
Kokerboomkloof 40km
2016年8月30日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Campsite in the middle of nowhere, only 2 other vehicles and they were far away so that we only heard them occasionally.
Truly back to nature.
Jakkalswater 354km
2016年8月31日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Left Kokerboomkloof in bright sunshine and hit low cloud at the top of Helskloof. Temperature dropped to 12 degrees.
Stopped to look at Wondergat ...
Springbok to the coast
2016年9月1日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Spent last night in Jakkalswater outside Springbok. The Namaqua Quest MTB race takes place from here from 1-3 September. So glad we weren't camping with the 300 participants in igloo tentsもっと詳しく
Skuinsbaai Noord
2016年9月1日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Drive down through Skilpad and onto Skuinsbaai Noord.
We're the only people in the camp tonight! What a treat.
The flowers at Skuinsbaai Noord
2016年9月1日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Such variety and colour!
Kwass se Baai
2016年9月3日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Flowers of the West Coast
2016年9月3日, 南アフリカ ⋅ 🌬 26 °C
Along the coast to Papkuilsfontein
2016年9月3日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Slow trundle down the coast leaving the Namaqua National Park.
Lots of gates to open and close ...
Papkuilsfontein
2016年9月4日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Flowers around Nuewoudville extremely sparce.
Nice campsite on the Papkuilsfontein, with gas shower and proper flush loo. A change from the last 2 nights where we only had an Enviro Loo and nothingもっと詳しく
Calvinia to Tankwa
2016年9月4日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
The drive through Calvinia on a Sunday was uneventful to say the least. In fact it seemed like the whole town was hibinating!
To my surprise, a few people were at the local Spar, which closed atもっと詳しく
Langkloof Campsite #1
2016年9月5日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
At the end of a "dead-end" we got to our 1st night's accommodation. An old farmhouse once stood here, which has now been modernised with gas geysers, flush loo's and very civilised showers and kitchenもっと詳しく
Langkloof - the story
2016年9月5日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
After very little sleep, we got up to huge cloud banks and even a couple of drops of rain....
While having breakfast, a bakkie came ambling along. What we thought were the next campers, turned outもっと詳しく
Tankwe National Park
2016年9月5日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Having visited this area exactly 3 years ago, which was a colourful wonderland, we were greeted by dry, drab, dusty roads and very little colour. Apparently the very early rains meant that the flowersもっと詳しく
Tankwa Guest house
2016年9月5日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Although a welcome relief from the howling wind, the accommodation is a little "out of the ordinary" for the area.
What was once a Lucern farm, the old farmhouse had been turned into a 3 bedroomもっと詳しく
Down from the Sutherland plateau
2016年9月6日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Merweville 1904
2016年9月6日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Passed through Merweville on our way to Karoo National Park.
A quaint little town in the middle of nowhere. Beautifully painted houses and of course the biggest building in town was the church.
Karoo National Park
2016年9月6日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Although the roads are very dusty, there is definite evidence that the park has good rains.
Many of the large open plains are covered in Karoo Gold bushes interspersed with purple vygies and otherもっと詳しく
Embizweni Cottage
2016年9月7日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
About 25km from the nearest human beings... Deafening silence, apart from the odd bird tweeting or a bug buzzing.
Although the sign at the entrance to the house was a little daunting, the house isもっと詳しく
Beaufort West to Mokala
2016年9月8日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Churches from Beaufort West and Loxton.
Skipped the one in Carnarvon, not as pretty.
Mokala National Park
2016年9月8日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Quickly setup camp as we were afraid the clouds above us were about to drop their load of water.
Luckily (for us, but unlucky for the dry veld) the rain held off. Let's hope it stays that way untilもっと詳しく
Mokala Day 2
2016年9月9日, 南アフリカ ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Game including Sable, Roan, Black Wildebeest, black springbok and birds everywhere in the park.
I hope that they get decent rains that the game have get some good food soon.
Home again
2016年9月10日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Home after 2 weeks.
Interesting figures :
4884km of tar, gravel roads and backwater tracks covered
Used approximately 650 litres of diesel
Consumed 2 bottles of port and 1 bottle of brandy toもっと詳しく











































































































































