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| Eish Airways in the middle of nowhere. Forgot to include this photo with the last post. |
Day 4
Unfortunately Denise came down with a dose of flu and we
thought it wise to take it easy on our second day at Bushmans Nek so after a
game of “Old Mans Marbles” bowls to those not in the know. This area has also
suffered from the drought and is evidenced by the amount of veld fires in the
area and the state of their bowling greens.
I had parked my car under some trees near our room and I
recall Sinead saying “pigs cannot fly because they have not got wings” well the
state of my car the next morning I believe pigs indeed do fly as it was covered
in pig poo from top to bottom and took me well over an hour to clean enough for
me to see out of the windows. I am hoping that I do not have a repeat performance
having changed where I park to an area away from the trees.
We did drive down to the border with Lesotho only
3kms away and on asking the border policeman where the road went to on the
other side he enlightened me that only people on foot or on horseback go
through the border. A number of the Natal
National Park trails do
start from this point most of them going up to caves in the Drakensberg
mountains, but we decided to give it a miss on this occasion.
Bushmans Nek have a lot of sporting facilities such as fly
fishing for rainbow trout, squash, tennis, put putt, bowls and mountain bike
trails so it is a good place for families with over active children.
We make plans with the hotel management to take a pack
breakfast as we need to get away before 06h00 to get to Johannesberg by 13h00.
Day 5
Well we get away by 05h45 after battling to find a
receptionist who is supposed to be on duty 24 hours, pay the bill, load the
car, which I am please to say had not been attacked by flying pigs. I was still
dark when we got underway and it was a fairly slow 45kms to Underberg where we
met up with the tar road which was to take us to Howick and then onto the N3 up
to Johannesburg.
We regrettably left our pack breakfast that the hotel staff
had diligently prepared so we pulled into one of the petrol stations and
enjoyed a welcome breakfast. We made good time until we got to the Rivonia off
ramp when we hit a traffic jam caused by SA roads authority deciding that
lunchtime on a Saturday was a good time to paint the lines on the highway, but
it did not end there; we were to meet family and friends at the Purple Tulip
near Broadacres, which is on Cedar Road near Steyn City and on this road they
are attempting to widen the road and keep the road open. I had forgotten the
volume of traffic in Johannesburg
and I did not enjoy this reminder after a journey of +/- 675kms.
We had a lovely afternoon with family and friends who were
there to greet us and had brought with them presents that we will find very
useful in our new home, what they forgot to do was give us a trailer to take
them back to Knysna. It was a lovely surprise and although it was not hard for
anyone to think of what to get us, as we have nothing, a lot of thought and
effort went into selecting the gifts and we thank each and every one of those
lovely people.
The only downside of the day was my team the Lions losing to
the Crusaders in the final of the Super Rugby competition, but I thought they
did well considering they were down to 14 men for at least three quarters of
the game, I also think the red card was a bit too harsh, oh well it is only a
game!!!
Day 6
Michael decided we needed fattening up and made us a
wonderful Potjie lunch after we had a good sleep with a little help from a
sleeping tablet. In all it was a relaxing day, which was very welcome after
quite a bit of driving in the last 5 days.
Day 7
We had a little bit of shopping to do today and Denise and I
ended up with Claudia and Granddaughters Sinead, Amber Lee and Naomi
terrorising two centres in Centurion, surprisingly we did achieve what we set
out to do. Tomorrow we start our trip into Botswana
and will spend tomorrow night at Kwa Nogeng at Martins Drift in Botswana and we
are looking forward to the second part of our trip and hopefully will bring you
more interesting news of our adventure.
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| Three Labacher Granddaughters terrorising the Irene Village Mall |
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| All ready for the concrete pour on Monday |
Our good friend Harry who is our site manager on the rebuild
of our house has kept us well informed although we could not help in locating where
Telkom lines came into the house, but he will make a plan as we know he will.
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| Courtesy of Tanja a photo of Snuggles content in his holiday boarding accommodation |
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