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Cost- 4 sleeper cottage: R1 600 per weekend plus R800.00 per additional night
Pet Friendly (no extra cost)
Cost – ‘Wild Camping’ sites: R60.00 pppn (No electricity, water, kitchen or ablution facilities supplied)
We are the only people at the cottages or camp sites – how lucky can we get!
The farm on which we spent the weekend is an active cattle and sheep farm with immaculate fences and none of the rubbish lying around that is so often associated with farmers. Winding past incredible rock outcrops with dassie sentries whistling warning of our progress, we arrived at a little stone cottage – a simple but welcoming 4-sleeper containing old furnishings that retain the pleasant patina of wood polished with love over many years. It’s impossible to resist running your hand over them as you pass.
We were offered accommodation in the cottage but decided to stay in the Tripper (familiar, comfortable and ours!) and made camp beside the pool. There is no electricity but the gas geyser supplies ample hot water. (It is a good idea to bring your drinking water with you). A small lawn, blue plunge pool and spring-green stinkwood trees, alive with an ever changing series of birds, entertained us for the day and a chorus of frogs welcomed us back to our beloved bushveld as evening closed around us. How privileged we are to find these jewels scattered across South Africa.
We took a walk down to the river bank to admire the stretch of clean water. It is hard to believe that yesterday this beautiful river was a quiet, dry, still-life artscape waiting for rain to celebrate its return to noise and bustle. In the wild campsite there is a fire pit protected from the wind by a beautiful stone wall and chairs long the river bank where you can watch the goings on on the water. Spurwinged and Egyptian geese, river monitors, fish eagles and the ever entertaining monkeys celebrated the waters return during the day while the red toads sang their welcome during a soft summer’s night. An amazing blaze of stars ended a perfect day.
Itchy Feet! 