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The Tulbagh and Cederberg regions will be in our memory for a long time, not least because of the heat!
We now know exactly what it is like to rotated on a kebab (sosaties as the South Africans call them). 47C is hot by any standards and we have sweated from parts we never realised we had!
In Tulbagh we visited Chris Eksteen, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Chuch, who we'd met in Kruger back in July, and had morning tea in the Pastory (probably no such word but it can't be a vicarage) whilst catching up. We also did our final wine tasting at the excellent Rijks winery.
In the Cape Conservation camp at Algeria in the Cederbergs we were gently toasted for 3 days, but were able to cool off in the best natural river pool we have ever encountered. We met our first large (Baboon) spider and had the usual run in with actual baboons, keen to seperate campers from their food, they got nothing from us!
The bushmen cave paintings were lovely to see and well worth the 40km bone shaking and mountain pass drive to get to them.
To escape the heat we headed for Lamberts Bay on the coast, just as the weather broke. We were greated by typical north Atlantic weather, cold, damp and misty which has persisted overnight.
The Anglo Boer War part 2 nearly started this morning when 3 Afrikaan families arrived at our campsite at 6.20am and started pitching tents. Showing uncanny self restraint I sent Angela out to complain!
Hoping to see the gannets today if the mist and drizzle breaks a bit.
The Landrover and trailer are running perfectly now, (thanks Ken and Gerrit at Handy Landy)
Next stop is Springbok and perhaps the Orange River estuary at Alexander Bay on the Namibian border
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