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| Red Mountains near Calitzdorp |
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| Oude Muragie Road |
We decided on a circular drive, to De Rust to visit Hillary Schutte, Craig’s mother. After tea with Hillary at her wonderful home, we headed for Oudtshoorn, and then towards Calitzdorp. We turned off before Calitzdorp because a huge storm was approaching and we decided not to go right into the eye of the storm. The road to Schoemanspoort went along the foot of the Swartberg mountains, a truly beautiful drive, but unfortunately the storm caught up with us and there were many sites that we unable to be seen because of the rain and mist.
But we did see the Red Mountains as we got onto this road, and the road that we were on turned out to be the Oude Muragie road, which was perhaps the road that led to my father’s mothers’ brothers farm which I visited as a young girl. When I was there last there were no irrigated lands, but now the whole valley is under irrigation with olive trees, lucerne and grapes, absolutely beautiful.
We got back to the Cango Mountain Resort to find the two other lots of campers had left and we had the whole place to ourselves – great –except that it was pouring with rain and my washing that I had hung out early in the morning, was dripping wet again. We got on to the bed and slept which it poured with rain. The storm passed at about 5pm and the sun came out and we had a beautiful evening even though it was wet underfoot – and very chilly.
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