Geelkrans Baviaans/Patensie

28/03/2025

My kinda people that find a happy place in Geelkrans as I do.🥰

27/03/2025

27/03/2025

Na reën in die Karoo, het die riviere by Klipplaat, Kamferpoort en die Poort mooi geloop en die Grootrivier dus gestyg. Kenwill het vir my die foto's by Geelkrans gestuur. Die laaste foto is geleen en was Dindsdag geneem van die Grootrivier. Die water het nou Geelkrans bereik en vars, nuwe modderkleurige water vul weer die rivier.

07/03/2025

Such a lovely pic of my favourite "truck"😄 Did the spare tyre dogs give me away? Site 11... die Jacobse (wat met so min tevrede is) met Weskus en Kadafie RIP😥
Photo credit Colette

01/03/2025

So I had to go to Namibia to get more firelighters for the "braais" (SOMEONE's gotta do it😁) but I sure got a bit homesick when I asked the campers if they were "OK" and I saw how green the grass got from the 17mm of rain😱 as I still desperately tried to water the whole place before departing, but failed. Thank you to the Creator Gardener watching over us.
Photo credit Snyder & Buys

28/02/2025

"...it's all too sharp, too loud, too fast for me.
I was made for an age of dirt roads, soft light, quiet skies,
and where our kindness has the patience of trees."

-john roedel

Some of the trees I cultivated from seed showing their patience.
Never underestimate...

15/02/2025

Still one of the most beautiful places to me...🥰

12/02/2025

At 42 degrees it was cooler than I expected - so there's that!
I am not certain how I always end up with helpers on these 40+ days - hence the rosy cheeks 🤣 as then we HAVE to make the most of it because it does not happen often!
So while the tractor dumped 12 trailers full of branches, trees, leaves, reeds - driving up and down for 8 hours straight - Wh**ey and I also took time to finish "planting" the rocks I've started with two months ago and how perfect is his work!
(I thought there was only about 5 clivias that would need replanting in order to open up the pathway neatly, but to my surprise 19 plants came out of about 2 metres' space ...😱🫢)

11/02/2025

I am stunned at what Wh**ey and Elvis accomplished these past two days... more than what I could do in weeks by mySELF.
Due to "circumstances" I could not even be with them while they worked, but they did EXACTLY what I saw in my mind and I could not be prouder of them! (Doing some pre long-weekend-in-March beautifying by cutting, pruning and removing dead reeds and leaves.)
Grass Buddy also cut the lawn today and you can take your hats off to his team as the grass multiplied after some previous rain as well as a bit of watering after the usual high traffic from December holidays. So it really took some cutting!!!
"They" are predicting 42 tomorrow, which means it will probably be 44, feeling like 47 🥵 so let's hope for some rain ASAP

07/02/2025

05/02/2025

So last weekend's campers were few but fish plentiful and big enough to wow us! The barbels were so hungry they even ate the carps' bait. Thank you for the photos, Thys! And also well done to Luan and his St Francis Bay Learning Centre...first time ever someone cares so much about a big carp that he did not even want to pick it up from the grass for a photo incase it got hurt.

30/01/2025

We had another 5.5mm of rain, putting us at 22.5mm for the past few days and I saw my favourite yellow-billed ducks for a mere few seconds before they disappeared in the reeds. I was so thrilled with the photos as they are such shy birds! What is not to love...

30/01/2025

Enroute to Geelkrans after the rain...how happy is this😅🐦🐦🐦

29/01/2025

There are days when you don't need to say anything as the cliff speaks for itself and it leaves you speechless anyway... Nitrogen fixation (the breaking down of nitrogen molecules in the air by lightning, making the nitrogen more available for plants to absorb") at it's best after three hours of thunder and the 15.5mm that of rain that grew to 17mm.

29/01/2025

The male with his meal yesterday...