1780 – a Dane visits the Karoo, South Africa.

Once upon a time , on a hot, dry, windy day, in April 1780, literally in the middle of nowhere, a Dane claimed a spot of land in what is one of the harshest areas on earth to farm. He recorded the event by carving the story on a huge boulder which is now in… Continue reading 1780 – a Dane visits the Karoo, South Africa.

The Trekbokke of the Karoo

An extermination party shows off their success.

The springbok treks in the late 1800s were akin to swarms of locusts moving over the land, and as devastating to sheep farmers, who often gave up farming after their grazing land had been destroyed by the springbokke.

The Golden Wildebeest

Have you heard of the rare Golden Wildebeest? Have you seen this animal, which was once thought mythical?