Bearish Bumbles

Wow - a lot of mileage (kilometrage just doesn't sound right) and some rather fast speeds. Clan William was a small and delightful town next to a dam. The B&B we were in was run by a nice lady of Germanic/Dutch origins, with a puritanical streak, placing us in a room with only 2 single beds. But she did leave us hot water bottles in covers, so I hugged mine almost all night.

We wondered what we should do in Clan William and the surroundings - knowing that we had to get to Springbok to go to Naries Guets farm, we looked for things that we could do reasonably quickly. Then we found out that there was Rock Art. Yay! Pink Floyd? Tommy? no - the San or Khoisan (I'm not sure of the difference) apparently painted pictures on their meeting places out in the middle of the wilderness. We thought that we'd love to see this, having missed out on Lascau and even on Aboriginal art in Oz. It was fabulous. Some exceptionally large bottomed women are painted, along with an archer or two, several deformed warthogs and cattle (more deformed than deformed rabbit), and a couple of groups of people are represented.

The main reason that we were in Namaqualand was to see the wildflowers. Apparently at this time of year, all through the desert people plant wild flowers. Or rather, the desert bursts forth in colour from the flowers that throughout the rest of the year look as though they are dead (personally I think they are just pinin' for the fjords). A couple at breakfast had however warned us that it wasn't a good display this year, and we should try for something else. Not to be deterred we set off toward Lamberts Bay along a known flower route, after viewing the rock art.


Lambertsbai was a small fishing town with what I hoped was a museum to the common spud: Potato World. I was sorely disappointed that instead of the King Edward lookey-likey hall of mirrors and the Desirée Death Dealing roller coaster (not to mention Idaho Gold singing "I Only Have Eyes For You") I found it was a chip factory. And there were no tours. That said the Paella that we had in the local locals eatery was awesome - Piglet tells me that the butterfish was great too. That and we discovered ... Savannah Dry and Savannah Light. Cider. Proper Cider. From Stellenbosch. Cider. That is drunk with Lemon in it. But a very good and refreshing Cider it was.

A final blast up through some rather lovely flowers to Springbok saw a number of photos taken and a rather lovely set of spare ribs consumed in Springbok at the rather risque "Titbits". Spelling here seems to be of the haphazard variety, but with 5 languages for each person to remember and be fully fluent in, who can blame them.

Dave (No... the Other Dave) wrote (08/24 19:46:07):
Heya bro!

I drool on every word of your adventures. Except the bits about being hungry and sick, obviously - I can get that here.

Just saying Hi, and that I miss you guys. Oh Emma: I read your board too, normally after a shower so I can use your wit to dry off.

(Yeah I know, lame, but I'm bog-arse tired.)

Oh - mini-news from me: I'm on Facebook and Garageband.com now. I thought I'd try adding some muzak online and see what happens. Not songs as such, just short incidental score bits.

Have fun guys! Thinking of y'all!
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