EC Slumdog BASH Katberg

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NIMMO

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Slumdog BASH 2018-11-15

Ajax – correct and add on please – you know the area  :thumleft:

On the Wednesday before the BASH I was still contemplating wearing winter clothes, it was COLD.

After getting some info on what to see and where to go (Thanks Jaco) I set of for Hogsback early Friday morning.  Ajax and I had spoken and we might just run into each other along the way.


IMG_6500 by Jean van der Walt, on Flickr

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Schoombee


IMG_6498 by Jean van der Walt, on Flickr

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Water is life – the green snake that is a river runs from Schoombee to Cradock.


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Notice the old sluice


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Cradock was HOT

Just for you Jaco – beautiful.  :thumleft:


IMG_6514 by Jean van der Walt, on Flickr

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Just outside of Cradock I took the Commandodrif road and passed the dam with the same name.


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Seems like all over the Eastern Cape farmers were moving sheep.  I stopped a couple of times.
Baboons EVERYWHERE – big ass ones, even if you stopped they just went about their business.
To be fair the roads were very, very hard and I pitied my tyres.

In Tarka I filled up and went looking for Piet Retief’s horses.


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Unique EC cape warning signs :deal: :pot:


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Along the way I ran into Ajax and Marius and Johannette.


Katberg (9) by Jean van der Walt, on Flickr

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Was nice having company.


Katberg (18) by Jean van der Walt, on Flickr

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Notice the homeland type roads.


IMG_6543 by Jean van der Walt, on Flickr

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IMG_6548 by Jean van der Walt, on Flickr

Katberg (60) by Jean van der Walt, on Flickr

Katberg (76) by Jean van der Walt, on Flickr

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Katberg (91) by Jean van der Walt, on Flickr
 
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