Kloof is Africaans and means gorge. "oo" is not spoken like an "u", but like "ua". Baviaans is a baboon. So the Baviaans Kloof is the gorge where the baboons live.
A drankwinkel is a shop mostly for alcoholic drinks or as it said "drank". A "winkel" is the word for a shop in Africaans.
Farms are simple and very cosy. Gardens are always a feast for the eyes.
water crossing included at the highway, which is the only way
I found a Nameless Stream among the hills,
And traced its course through many a changeful scene;
Now gliding free through grassy uplands green,
And stately forests, fed by limpid rills;
Now dashing through dark grottos, where distils
The poison dew ; then issuing all serene
'Mong flowery meads, where snow-white lilies screen
The wild-swan's whiter breast. At length it fills
Its deepening channels; flowing calmly on
To join the Ocean on his billowy beach.
—But that bright bourne its current ne'er shall reach:
It meets the thirsty Desert and is gone
To waste oblivion! Let its story teach
The fate of one — who sinks, like it, unknown.
Glen Lynden, 1825
Farming
and camping at the river mouth
is a small town somewhere between Port Elizabeth and Cape Town at the Indian ocean.
World-class beaches for wave-riding
As I stayed with my family two times two years in Port Elizabeth for life and work, I feel inseparably associated with the people and the country of South Africa.
Since these times, I share joy and sadness with all South African people and be grateful for the exeriences we all could made.
The landscape is just as beautiful as it was since the beginnig of time and the vast horizon in the Karoo reminds you to your own transitoriness. A land which is capable to give you back the peace we miss in our hectic western hight-tec world.
Therefore, I keep it with a very famous quote from an even more famous poet, who loved this continent more than his own life, at the end.
“You become
responsible forever
for what you've tamed”
Le petit prince, 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
