Thursday, 31 August 2017

Southern Africa Safari 2017 – Day 22


The Beautiful Cedarberg

We must be the worlds greatest optimists; today we drive down to Lamberts Bay as we were told that flowers had been seen, but again it was a disappointment.

However we were able to do our good deal for the day when we came across a security company vehicle on the side of the road and they had run out of petrol some 10kms from Lamberts Bay so we gave one of their party a lift into town and told him if he is still on the road when we go back to Clanwilliam we will pick him up.

Lamberts Bay has a fish factory and a potato chip manufacturing plant that supplies a lot of the fast food outlets in the Western Cape with chips, I assume they par cook and pack, after all this is a potato growing area. The odour of fish is very evident in this town and although we did not see any fish we could certainly smell them.

In the afternoon we travelled up into the Cedarberg and saw how low the water in the dam was, but the scenery was great, but very little in the way of flowers.

Tomorrow we leave for the Tankwa Karoo National Park our second last stop on this our Sothern Africa Safari.
You can see where the dam supposed to be now it is beach

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