Cape Town Road Trip Days 6 & 7

The Malherbe family were our hosts for the evening. They have a beautiful farm. They farm sheep.

This I can say with certainty. Me I'm not cut out for farm life!

Those blasted chickens woke me up at 4.30 am. And boy oh boy, there were two roosters competing, because they did not stop crowing...

Oh well, we started our day bright and very early (or not so bright, looked like the sun was having second thoughts about coming up to greet us!) If I thought that it was cold in Cape Town, I was wrong, it properly cold here on this farm!

As we walked out into the pre-dawn this is the view that greeted us...

After bitting 2 horses, the sun got up :)

We were treated to a farm breakfast of fresh free range duck eggs on toast. Truly yummy, truly.

As Dawn did the bit fitting for the 7 horses, I was able to roam about the farm.

Sweet little lamb was born the night before.

Yup, that is what you would call a chicken legging it. I suppose I would to if there was a mad English woman trying to take my picture so early in the morning.

Upon closer inspection, these are the weirdest chickens I have EVER seen. Naked necked chickens, for real!

Shame...

Here was one of our customers... Handsome boy :)

Ahh, a bit of creative time (^^,)

We then bid adieu to the Malherbe family and headed off to Riversdale.

Riversdale is dairy country...of course there would have to be a cow crossing

What a view this lady has, there is nothing around for miles!

This pup was beside himself with excitement during the bitting. He ran circles around us for almost and hour.

I loved his ears! Looks like he's directing traffic.

Dimples, who was our last customer, was not so fond of the mouth measure...

Note the ears... nope, not pleased at all.

I have met the most wonderful people on this trip, as well as a load of animals with character. But this old boy captured my heart,

As I stepped out of the truck, he came to greet me. I fell in love with him in a instant!

For the first time in my life, I experienced love at first sight.

So here's my shot of the day...

More diamonds! (^^,)

 

Headed home after this...

And so we set off for home. We spent the night in Beaufort West once again. This time we stayed at the 3 Chimneys.

What a delightful little spot.

We were up before dawn again, this time both of us looking forward to getting home.



Lotsa love xx

Cape Town Road Trip Day 5

Day 5, saw us saying good-bye to BloubergStrand.

It was another cold and cloudy day. Shew it was freezing :)

We headed into Worcester, I loved these little waterfalls, I was quite surprised to see that they weren't frozen over! LOL, I was so cold.

This farm house is where we stayed on our first night in Worcester.( It was so dark then, that I couldn't take any pic's.) It has been in the De Wit family for 6 generations. And among other things they farm wine grapes.

We stopped to say good bye to the wonderful family, who were our gracious hosts.

Arina's ducks...

How's that view?

Gorgeous.

From Worcester we made our way to Robertson. Which so happens to be the birthplace of my favourite wine. Sadly, we were under the whip, so there was to be no shopping to be done. Places to go, people to see, horses to bit!

Ah.. the winding road :)

After our time in Robertson, it was time to head off to a farm between Ladismith and Riversdale. A 2 hour drive.

So we drove into the sunset. 

So for my shot of the day, I could'nt quite choose between these two...

I'm not going to tell you how close I was to this slug! Yuck!

But, it's a cool shot (^^,) 

LOL

Lotsa love xx



Cape Town Road Trip Day 3

Oh My Word! Did you think that I fell off the face of the earth, on day 2 of my road trip?

It has been a busy time here in the Mansfield home :)

While we were away in Cape Town, I got a call from my sweet Sis, to let us know that she and her family were coming up for a visit! Hip hip hooray!

They came up for a week. It was wonderful to have some much needed quality time together. I did not open my computer once...

So let's get back to Cape Town...

On day 3, we had a jam packed day. We left Worcester bright and early, and were treated to a beautiful sun rise!

Breathtaking!

We made our way to Somerset West. Dawn bitted 6 horses here. One of them was in a field.

His friends were quite interested in the goings on. LOL

They reminded me of a troop of monkeys... they were so curious. I had to close all the doors of the truck, they stared rummaging through all the goodies!

After Somerset West we heading into Stellenbosch, eish look at those cold clouds! Here we were treated to doing the bittings in the rain...lovely!



As soon as we were done, the rain stopped of course!

dawn and I got into a bit of a rhythm, once I had taken down all the info, she did the bit fittings,  I was left to my own devices... that meant that I could wonder around and take a gazillion photos (^^,)

I was in my element!

Look at these two pooches that I met. :)

Once we left Stellenbosch, we drove into Cape Town. 

I took this pic while we were driving to our last appointment for the day.

This is my shot of the day. I took this one, in a field in Somerset West. I loved the dew drops. They look like diamonds!

After a very busy day, we made our way into Blouberg Stand for the evening...

Lotsa love xx



Cape Town Road Trip Day 2

Good Morning (^^,)

What a wonderful day we had yesterday. We left Beaufort West bright and early yesterday and made our way into the Western Cape. Our first port of call was Wellington. We travelled through the Hex River Valley. The scenery quite literally took my breath away. every hundred meters or so, I would ask Dawn to stop, so that I could take some pic's.

I stand in awe of my Creator! Here are some of the scenes that took my breath away :)

After our time in Wellington, we made our way to Worcester. We travelled through Bain's Pass (over a mountain) For a while we were completely covered in the clouds, 

After our time in Wellington, we made our way to Worcester. We travelled through Bain's Pass (over a mountain) For a while we were completely covered in the clouds,  

Behind me is a mountain with a massive ravine

This would be Dawn and I freezing our charlies off. Please not the blue hue of my lips.... No that;s not a new lipstick shade LOL

As we were diving, we caught a glimpse of what was below us

Last shot of the day, was the sun setting over the Worcester Horse club,

We are off to a different part of the Cape today. I'm looking forward to what's in store for us.

Have a super Saturday

Lotsa love xx

Cape Town Road Trip Day 1

Dawn and I are off on an adventure. We are off to Cape Town! Dawn has a number of biting consults to do, 20 of them. That's allot of work, and of course her trusty sidekick assistant's services are required! Being the kind, caring and faithful friend that I am, I humbly accepted the job as scribe.

So we set off before before the sun rose this morning. Shewpa! It was cold!

What a beautiful sunrise! 

Don't you agree! I love it when ABBA paints the sky, and this morning it was my favourite colour. I love pink. It always makes my heart smile!

My word, we have packed for what looks like, we'll be away for a month. Thankfully it's just Dawn and I in the car! Not another soul would fit in... 

We had breakie on the go this morning, no stopping here...

We shared the driving. I am learning not to be so controlling, LOL,

Dawn drove the first shift, and I took over at Bloemfontein. I love to drive :) 

I drove until we reached The Three Sisters in the Northern Cape. It is named for 3 mountain peaks ajacent to each other. Sorry no pic... it was so overcast, they were completely covered by the clouds. 

We had a lovely farm style lunch, I had a lamb pie, real comfort food on this cold day. 

 After lunch we had to wander around the farm stall.

Dawn took over the driving, and I was able to capture this amazing cloud formation!

 It was the first bit of sunlight that we saw all day! Look!

It looks like a magnifying glass.

It took my breath away. I literally stood up on the car to get the pic!

This is my 'shot' of the day (^^,)

And this was Dawn's 'shot' of the day.

We have arrived safely in the town of Beaufort West. A pretty little spot :)

And now it's dinner time.

Lotsa love xx