66 Square Feet: N7 to Kamieskroon

Saturday, September 15, 2007

N7 to Kamieskroon - Day 4

On the N7 north to Kamieskroon - this mountain features in Day 7 as well. We didn't recognize it from the opposite direction and in different light!

Ditch flowers

The town of Garies and its butcher.

More veld, interrupted.

Kamieskroon Hotel

Herrea blanda...

Felicia australis

Lapeirousia silenoides - picture the veldt packed with these...

Lebeckia cytisoides

3 comments:

VinceSeptember 15, 2007 at 9:45 AM
Do I read this correctly on the road signs?

"Toeriste Inligting"

ROTFL. I'm going to go inlight in few tourists today... ;-))))
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MarieSeptember 15, 2007 at 1:56 PM
Clever you...Inligting is information in Afrikaans!

Lucky bloody toursits....
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MarijkeSeptember 19, 2007 at 4:18 PM
Beautiful pics - Marie. Feel like hitting the road myself for a couple of days...solo....that would be heaven
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