Northern Cape

April - September 2008: On the road with Foxy, our Landrover 110 Defender, from Cape Town to Jersey, UK. Then to France, Italy and Ontario... arriving in our new home: Nanaimo, Vancouver Island!

A new continent deserved a new blog! Same as before click through, and see pics, read random rants!!

Well, we left Springbok early this morning and took off for Springbok. Again a resonably uneventful drive, just long, with a couple of stops thrown on the middle.   I meant to mention on yesterdays blog, about the man on a donkey cart that we came ...

... desert. There are lakes between 900 feet high dunes and flowers blooming on red sand. For the last week we traversed from Cape town, skipping along the coast up to Swakopmund, Namibia. (AKA - where Brad Pitt and Angelina are having their Child.) ...

... is worth seeing because the country changes so dramatically from green, humid southern part to bege, reddish and dry northern landscapes. The deal with the train was particularly good as we took advantage of the available promotion and paid only ...

... are slowing changing. We no longer see flying fish, they have been replaced by albatrosses following our ship. It looks as if the Cape of Storms is going to live up to its reputation. The map shows the predicted wave heights in the Atlantic. We are on ...

... province. From here the river flows further westwards through the arid wilderness of the southern Kalahari region and Namaqualand in the Northern Cape Province to meet with Namibia at the 20th degree of east longitude. From here it flows westwards for ...

... into the windscreen and vineyards were a splash of green in an otherwise yellow brown dried up landscape. We were in the northern cape and soon driving through Namaqualand, flat, lunar like and expansive. Windmills turned slowly, a metaphor for life in ...

... again – may send parents a spare SD card home for them to upload pics on my behalf. Also if anyone ever feels like writing/posting, feel free, my address is: Kuruman River Reserve, PO Box 64, Van Zylsrus 8467, Northern Cape, South Africa Lyndsey xx ...

... - that is what I don't want to see while we are in the Kalahari!!! Yesterday we flew from Cape Town to Upington, which is in the Northern Cape of South Africa. It is very hot and dry here - it is the desert. We stayed in a guesthouse right next to the ...