Last weekend, we headed up camping to a place called Beaverlac. This citrus-farm-turned-campsite had stunning scenery and really beautiful rock pools for swimming. It happened to be ridiculously hot all weekend, so we swam a lot, sweated a lot, ate a lot, and sat in the shade with cold beers.
We went with our friends Candida and Euen (Candida teaches 5th grade at Jim's school), Patrick (who teaches 4th grade), and Candida's friends, Tracey and Lewellen. Tracey and Lewellen are Afrikaaners, and they taught us a thing or two about braiing and making potjie (pronounced "por-ki-ey," sort of) - a delicious lamb stew. We each were asked to bring up some wood for making fires to cook over - but not just any wood. Candida wrote to us: "If each of you can try to bring chairs and a bag of wood...but wood has to be rooikrans or kameldooring (or something like that) as Afrikaaners are very particular about their braaing wood and Euan and I have brought a fire starter pack once which did not go down well!"
The rooikrans I bought at the local supermarket, unfortunately, was wet and Jim spent a hot hour trying to get a fire going with it. We'll do better next time!
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| Fields along the road. |
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| Sunset as we drive up the mountain pass to get to the campsite. |
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| Jim slaves over a hot fire to cook our morning bacon! |
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| Looking out over the valley and citrus groves on our way to a rock pool. |
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| Jim's a happy camper! |
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| Me, Tracey and Ccino the dog (short for Cappuccino) take a dip in Flat Rock Pool. |
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| The view from our campsite. |
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| We love our tent! |
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| Driving back up the pass to get out of the valley - it was steep!! |
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| At the top of the other side, looking out over the plain we'll drive across. |
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| You can see the road down the pass - no guardrails. |
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| Some funny ostrich-farm signage along the N7 :) |
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