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Re: EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 2:33 pm
by 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.
Re: EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 3:11 pm
by Lisbeth
Re: EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 3:33 pm
by steamtrainfan
Thanks Lisbeth.
Re: EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 5:48 pm
by nan
Re: EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 6:08 pm
by H. erectus
Alf wrote: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
Re: EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 10:04 pm
by steamtrainfan
Re: EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 10:06 pm
by steamtrainfan
H. erectus wrote:Alf wrote: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.
Re: EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 10:11 pm
by Alf
I'm afraid of a crowbar ...........
Re: EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 10:23 pm
by 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.
Re: EXPLORING FRONTIER COUNTRY and other areas.
Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 8:41 am
by Lisbeth
Not much traffic on the secondary roads
That's a very long bridge, but 1'152Km is exaggerated methinks
