Friday, 8 February 2013

THE RHYTHMS OF THE RIVER VAAL

Imagine drifting down a wide river. On one side the banks are spotted with incredible properties. The other side is wild bush with willow trees. Monkeys play in the trees and otters frequent the banks while dragonflies float on the gentle breezes, suddenly a tiger fish will leap out of the water creating ripples on the otherwise calm river. This area is called Windsor on Vaal and there are similarities except here it's hot sun, very few boats, no people,much larger properties. There are a few restaurants which allow boats to moor up which we did last night as there was the storm of all storms Never seem lightening like It !!! But we were snug in this little boat and found it very easy to manoeuvre after our Princess.

drifters one teddy head north on the N3 to Joburg. More amazing scenery for miles and miles over Africa are enormous forests many man planted and it can be quite monotonous driving through these extensive areas but it is employing 170,000 people in SAfrica alone. It adds 6billion rands to SAs GDP and there is more potential. SAfrica uses a large amount of wood and can't keep up with demand.









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