Foggy Farm

Travelling from Mossel Bay to Oudtshoorn a week or so ago, we made a quick stop at Eight Bells Mountain Inn for a site inspection. Although I haven't been to Eight Bells for a while, it used to be one of my regular overnight stops when I was a tourist guide. The morning of our visit there was quite a lot of fog on the mountains around the area and I got this shot looking from the hotel across to the mountain in the background.

Hopped barb wire

Ok, so I have a thing for barbed wire fences. Here is one I took at the hop farm between George and Oudtshoorn in the Outeniqua Mountains.

Gull at sunset

I was taking photos of the sunset at Eersterivier on the Garden Route on a recent trip and a couple of gulls flew by. I was hoping to get a few in the shot, but they were a bit far apart.

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Bramon Wine Estate

Traveling down the Garden Route the other day we stopped at Bramon Wine Estate at The Crags just outside Plettenberg Bay. Bramon was the first wine estate this far east of the Cape Winelands and produces a superior Sauvignon Blanc 'cap classique' sparkling wine.

The beauty of Bramon is that the seating for their restaurant is set in the vineyards and visitors can enjoy local wines with cheeses, meats, oysters, pates and homemade bread with the majestic Tsitsikamma mountains in the background.

Treetops Canopy Tour

The Tsitsikamma Canopy Tour in Storms River on the Garden Route is a must do for any mild to wild adventurer. It became the first canopy tour in Africa and only the second in the world after a similar experience in Costa Rica. The whole experience takes place up to 30 meters above the ground in the canopy of what includes Outeniqua Yellowwood trees of up to 700 years old.

The whole experience is conducted with utmost safety in mind. A safety briefing was done before we were all kitted out in our harnesses. A short trip on the back of a Landrover took us to first platform and the start of our 10 slides. The worst past for me as somebody with a fear of heights was stepping off the first platform, but once you let go you realise that the exhilaration is far better than the fear. On each of the platforms the guides were telling us about the ecology of the forest as we stood preparing for the next slide. A plus was that one of our guides was a former Miss Tsitsikamma.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Firefly.

The experience was absolutely awesome and I can recommend it to anybody travelling down the Tsitsikamma.

Stop and smell the roses

I like roses as much as the next person. They are colourful, fragrant, romantic and can spruce up any garden. For some reason though I always find people's posts with roses in it a bit on the boring side, till I think about it and come to the realisation. Every now and then everybody needs to stop and smell the roses... Relax... Unwind... Take it easy... That's what we are doing for the next couple of days on a camping trip. Doubt that there will be roses where we are going, but I promise to bring back photos of whatever there is. Have a blessed Easter and check you all again on Tuesday.

Paddle cruiser at sunset

The Featherbed Company's Paddle cruiser moments before departure for the sunset cruise on the Knysna Lagoon.

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