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| These flowers were seen at Concordia north of Springbok |
Our intention to travel home via the West Coast was to see
the flowers, but alas, as with yesterday the flowers were few and far between.
They say that for a good flower showing in the Western part of South Africa in August and September it needs to
rain in March/April to germinate the seeds from the previous year and then get
good winter rain and we all know that it has been a dismal year as far as
rainfall in the Cape is concerned.
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| Quiver trees in South Africa as well as Namibia |
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| Flowers what flowers |
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| That is my favourite flower in the centre of some Namaqualand daisy's |
Before we left the Springbok area we went to Concordia north
of Springbok as our host said that there had been reports of some good sighting
of flowers and there was a fair show. On our way to Clanwilliam we hunted
flowers everywhere from Skilpad to the Namaqua National Park
and the best we found was on the side of the road.
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| The photo does not do these flowers justice |
Like the elephants of Madumu nature has dictated and dented
our expectations and the Spring flowers of West South
Africa this year were a damp squib. We took the whole day to get
to Clanwilliam and our hosts at Saint du Barry, Wally and Joan had reserved a
table for us at Reinhold's and we had a superb dinner.
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