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.
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Deelfontein: Home of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital
Mrs Google Maps when getting the directions to Deelfontein must have been playing broken telephone, because we took a seriously long scenic route. But hey, I don’t do lost, so we enjoyed the Karoo scenery. Flat land. The odd koppie (small flat topped mountain). Sand. Springbokke. Knee high scrub bush. Repeat. Repeat again.
The Trekbokke of the Karoo
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.
Traveling again? Galavanting with Kathryn Costello 