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- Nov 5, 2022, 4:50pm
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 12 m
- South Africa Eastern Cape Port St Johns Camerondale The Gates -31.598982, 29.53220931°35’56” S 29°31’56” E
Day 47
Port St Johns - Cremorne camp
November 5, 2022 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
After a day driving through the gorgeous green rolling hills of The Wild Coast, we headed back to the coast to Cremorne. Our campsite is beautiful grass with rocky mountains surrounding us with rainforest.Read more
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- Apr 5, 2022
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 5 m
- South Africa Eastern Cape Port St Johns Camerondale The Gates -31.598642, 29.53185731°35’55” S 29°31’55” E
Day 21
Day 21 - WildCoast/ Port St’Johns
April 5, 2022 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Up at Sparrows this morning, we set off for Port St.Johns on the Transkei 'Wild Coast'.

All 200km's odd on the R61, were certainly not as horrendous as I had expected, but also not quite "Route66"!

Avoiding the N2 at all costs we travelled from Port Edward=> Bizana=> Flagstaff=> Lusikisiki to Port St.Johns.

No wonder I have never heard of Flagstaff in my life 😳!!! Now, I have been to Burgersfort and Jane Furse, which are the Ass-end of South Africa, and I believe Mogadishu is the ass-end of the world, but this world has two..."Flagstaff" is the other!!! Wow!!! Taxi's, scrapped cars, dogs, cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys, horses and thousands and thousands of people. All sharing the main street at the same time and nowhere to hide! Stuck in a pucker traffic jam for 40min, with all of the above jostling for their place in the 'street's that have no name'😖😖😖

Contrary to my thoughts yesterday as I said, the roads were not too bad and as for Electricity services, every single structure had an electrical connection in one way or another, legal or not but there was a connection. In addition to this every other home had a Satalite Dish installed too! After four and a half hours we arrived at the Cremorne Estate (Caravan and camping) in Port St.Johns, absolutely the most stunning campsite so far. Expecting anything south of Mogadishu, what a surprise! Overlooking beautiful lawns a very swollen, Mzimvubu River and a monsterous mountain cliff face, gawking down only 200m away.

Getting back to the approaching weather front. So far blue skies and the odd cloud, all the Apps are showing slightly less precipitation but still, a whole deluge of water later in the week😖

Right now we are considering a Plan 'B' should conditions deteriorate any further. We have made contact with Roy, the owner of 'White Clay Resort' between Coffee Bay and Hole-in-the-Wall who is flashing red lights, if conditions get any worse. That certainly is our next destination, but we may need to be just a little circumspect and listen to some sage advice.

Will keep you all posted👍

Love, Peace and Light
M&K
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- Apr 7, 2022
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 5 m
- South Africa Eastern Cape Port St Johns Camerondale The Gates -31.598637, 29.53187631°35’55” S 29°31’55” E
Day 23
Day 23 - WildCoast/ Port St Johns
April 7, 2022 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
One just has to love the early morning smells of Pondoland. Mixed up somewhere and somehow in the fresh clean sea-air, there is always a sniff of wood-fire smoke, warming the old traditional 'Donkey' for a decent hot shower. Added to which, the obligatory stench, now and then, of the ancient 'Transkei Sewer Systems' here in our beautiful Estate 😳!!!

Directly across from our camp, the 50m's of lawn, the 80m wide Mzimvubu River (still bank to bank), is an Indigenous Coastal Forest, climbing the cliffside, all of 700m high. I'm not sure if Reeds and Bamboo along the river are considered Invasive and/or Indigenous or not, that aside this natural jungle of several different tree types is awesome. Driving through the 'jungle' yesterday, it was so encouraging to see a signboard indicating that there is a deforestation project, of alien vegetation taking place, right here and now. Brilliant!

And then of course, how could one ever disregard inside the 1960's Transkei Ablutions? Even here 60 odd years later, drip stains in the toilet bowl from river water. Plugs chains without plugs and the then most fashionable....Shower Floors!!!😳 Cracked, broken, smashed, wall tiles, cleverly pieced together like a mosaic puzzle! Algae and Moss encroaching on grout spacing, anything between 10 and 30mm wide. Rusted chrome pipe and sticky plastic shower curtains, also attacked by Mould, like under a Diesel Mechanics thumb nail😳

I spoke to Roy from 'White Clay Resort' earlier and he has given us the Thumbs up to make the trip from Port St.Johns via Mthatha and Mqanduli to Coffee Bay and Hole-in-the-Wall. Despite the approaching weather front we believe we have made the correct and calculated decision to continue tomorrow morning.

As of today we have officially been 'off-the-grid- for three weeks now. Apart from the absolute luxury of Munster for a few days, we are 'Winging' it.

In the afternoon a trip back to Lusikisiki and then onto see the Magwa Falls, which were probably not worth the trip, but the Magwa Tee Estate was beautiful. 1,800 hectares of Black Tee in full production, quite an eye opener, employing 1,500 Mapondo's.

Lots of Love, Peace & Light.
M&K
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