We arrived at uShaka 30 minutes prior to the start of our 20km event. Sadly after a little chaos we somehow ran out of time and somehow managed to miss the start (albeit by only 200 meters as we ran to catch up). Other than that the walk was well organised and ran smoothly. The …
Thankfully I woke up feeling somewhat better than I had when I fell asleep (dreaded sickness). I packed up my kit, got into the car and headed for Nick’s place. Two hours later and we were pulling into Giant’s Castle Nature Reserve. It was 6 degrees and the water in the Bushmans River looked chilly. …
The long awaited Pilanesberg trip finally arrived and even Thursday night’s packing seemed exciting…well, at first anyway. After having packed the majority of Sharon’s and my kit into the trailer my mom finally arrived with her kit. FAIL! I’m not entirely sure that a bedside lamp (including lampshade) was necessary, but we eventually managed to …
Nick and I headed for the Berg on Sunday to get in a last fishing trip before we both headed to opposite ends of South Africa for the Easter holidays. The venue was once again Granchester and the weather was once again ominous. That said things looked good when we arrived – there was a …
Sunday was once again taken up with some fly fishing in the Berg. Things got off to a sad start when we noticed another fisherman at our water. Apparently the NFFC booking line had been down for 2 days and so he had just decided to pitch up hoping nobody else had booked. Oh well, …
The weekend started with a 7km trail run for Sharon and I which was run in a slight drizzle. The trail run was at Giba Gorge and Sharon did far better than expected coming in as the 7th lady in that distance. The race was followed by an egg and bacon roll at Giba and …
With Monday being a public holiday Sharon and I made a last minute decision to head to Cobham for the long weekend. Why Cobham? Well I wanted to fish a river and Cobham was the only campsite with accommodation available so last minute. So on Saturday morning Sharon and I packed the final items into …
Since Nick was working on Sunday we decided to have a fish on Saturday morning. Rather than head to the berg we tried something new and headed down to Inanda dam to try and bash some bass. Nick picked me up at 7am which was a nice change from the normal 5am. In retrospect however …
Having left Pilanesberg at 9am my mom, Sharon and I pulled into Alpine Heath at around 2pm. Amazingly we met my dad and Cassia at reception. Clearly they were running somewhat late for the wedding and quickly rushed off to get changed. We were meanwhile given directions to the unit, climbed into the car and …
It was time for another weekend away, this time to further celebrate Sharon’s dad’s 60th. I picked Sharon up from the office and we headed straight for Chaka’s Rock on the old highway. It’s amazing to see how beautiful the old roads are when compared to the new highways. You pass through forests and drive …