EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.

[steamtrainfan]

03 MAY 2015 - DAY 18 - RAPTOR RIDGE LODGE AT GARIEP DAM - PART 4/4


Our second last night stop was at Raptor Ridge Lodge.

A lifer for us but unfortunately not such good photos as he was far away.

Acacia Pied Barbet.





A few animals coming down to drink in the late evening viewed from our patio.





Female Red-headed Finch.



A pair of swallows (?) waiting for us to move off the patio so they could get to their nest.



Sunset over the dam from our patio.



Moonrise over the veld.



END OF DAY 18.

[Lisbeth]

Beautiful sunset photo

[steamtrainfan]

Beautiful sunset photo

Thanks Lisbeth.

[nan]

love too the view from the patio... morning... evening...

[H. erectus]

Me in construction steamtrainfan. Structures like that always get my attention and into trouble because

Me too Alf however my dearest has learned to have a open heart
for time and space too another,...A kind of crowbar in the handbag!!!
I now realize why I am never allowed to look see into that bag!!!!!,....
emotional toolkit,...Heh he

[steamtrainfan]

love too the view from the patio... morning... evening...

Thank you very much nan.

[steamtrainfan]

Me in construction steamtrainfan. Structures like that always get my attention and into trouble because

Me too Alf however my dearest has learned to have a open heart
for time and space too another,...A kind of crowbar in the handbag!!!
I now realize why I am never allowed to look see into that bag!!!!!,....
emotional toolkit,...Heh he

So pleased to see that Alf and H.E. have something in common and we do not think it is the crowbar in the handbag.

[Alf]

I'm afraid of a crowbar ...........

[steamtrainfan]

04 MAY 2015 - DAY 19 - RAPTOR RIDGE TO VENTERSBURG - ONS KUIERHUIS - PART 1/4


It was with heavy hearts that we left Raptor Ridge Lodge as this was to be our last "off the highways" day of travel. From Ventersburg we hit the N1 to Pretoria.

Early morning grass in the morning sun before we left Raptor Ridge Lodge.



On the R701 near Raptor Ridge Lodge.



Another wind pump scene this time on the R701 with part of Gariep Dam in the background.



The long straight roads of the Free State.



We promise that this will be our last bridge photo.
A combined road-rail bridge, the Hennie Steyn Bridge, crosses the Gariep River at Bethulie. The bridge is 1'152Km long, and 51,5m high - the longest in South Africa, and claimed to be the longest in the southern hemisphere. I would love to have caught a train crossing the bridge.

Viewed from the Western side.....



......and then from the eastern side.



Part 2/4 to follow.

[Lisbeth]

Not much traffic on the secondary roads

That's a very long bridge, but 1'152Km is exaggerated methinks