En route R 407
Monday, September 17 to go to Prince Albert I circumvented Swartberg
by the east via Meiringspoort Pass stopping halfway to visit the
waterfall registered with the world heritage. The gorges are
impressive as well by their narrowness as by the color of the rock.
I found an unspecified bivouac on the R407 road. I point out that
all the fields are enclosed representing several hundreds of
thousands of kilometers of fences in South Africa!
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The GPS road tracklog
from Route R407 to Prince Albert
from 2018/09/18 to 2018/09/18
Prince Albert
Tuesday, September 18 I visited the Prince Albert village which was
founded in 1762. Many houses go back to this time and are remarkably
maintained. I decided to establish my bivouac in the street at the
bottom of pylon of telecommunications to have a good Wi-Fi
connection. Alas wasn't it the case, perhaps because of strong gales
disturbing the wave propagation?
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The GPS road tracklog
from Prince Albert to Herolds Bay
from 2018/09/19 to 2018/09/20
Herold's Bay
Wednesday, September 19 I left Prince Albert to again cross
Swartberg but by a gravel road during approximately 40 km west of
solid mass whose surface is of good quality. A light drizzle
accompanied me in the rise which was transformed into snowflakes at
approximately 1500 meters of altitude. Crumplings of the rock at the
time of the tectonic movements during million years have various
colors under the sun morning between two heavy showers. Then the
tarred road by Oudtshoorn carried out me up to Herold's Bay at the
edge of the Indian Ocean where I bivouacked during two nights in the
crash of the ocean.
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The GPS road tracklog
from Herold's Bay to Wilderness & back
from 2018/09/21 to 2018/09/22
Herold's Bay
Friday, September 21 my road plan laid down two days in the village
of Wilderness at the bottom of covered mountains with forests and at
the edge of a long white sand beach. Alas the village is traversed
by a narrow street bordered with second homes without ideal parking
for two nights. Consequently I return to my bivouac at Herold's Bay
on cliff dominating the noisy rage of the Indian Ocean favourable
the romantic daydream by reading again pages by Alexandre Dumas by
appreciating the French language of the Louis XIV's court with the use of
perfect of subjunctive fallen down in disuse!
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| Wilderness |
Herold's Bay |
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| Sunset |
The GPS road tracklog
from Herold's Bay to Knysna
from 2018/09/23 to 2018/09/23
Knysna
Sunday, September 23 before crossing the bridge spanning the lagoon
of Knysna I forked to go to visit the Belvedere church built in 1850
of Norman style and devoted to the Anglican rite. It is actually a
vault for the English expats living the joint village. I did not
visit Knysna almost closed for a cycle race. I moved towards Knysna
Woodbourne Resort for my Sunday bivouac.
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