We’ve been on holiday for the past week and a bit and it has been quite a hectic time really. First off Wouter and I spent a couple of days in Garies with friends. Where I might add it was PHENOMENALLY HOT, we’re talking climb into the freezer with the ruddy great big hunk of beef hot. Wouter had a wonderful time shooting with Dries, whilst I spent a large part of the time wallowing in cold baths.
The both had fun shooting the last one. I on the other hand had fun taking a few ‘arty’ type shots.
Have to confess, this last one was manipulated a bit with photoshop – still awesome though :-)
After Garies it was on to Oudshoorn for the KKNK we didn’t have a lot of time so had only booked two shows. As it happened we spotted a poster for a Valiant Swart show, and being ardent supporters (‘k so Wouter’s the ardent fan, I’m merely a hanger on) we rushed off to get tickets. Turned out we needn’t have worried, it was a dismal turnout – the show was great – and the handful or so of us in the audience really enjoyed it. Having been to a few KKNK’s now – I was amazed at how quiet this one was – reckon the financial situation is hitting many pockets. Our other two shows had a better turnout – Ddisselblom was lekker as always and Koos Kombuis was a delight. In fact some members of the audience enjoyed him so much they had to be taken away in a police van. We’re in two minds as to whether this was a publicity stunt or not, but my money is on not. After all there always has to be one or two idiots in an audience – or so it seems.
We took the Swartberg Pass to get to Oudshoorn and then the Seweweekspoort pass out. Awesome scenery.
We’d passed through a thunder storm on the way to the Swartberg Pass and it was still raining when we went over it – not that we had any problems navigating the pass.
Seweweekspoort Pass
We were back in time to spend a few days with the kids before they went off to their Dad’s. I’d told them they could decide what they’d like to do, so they said they wanted to visit Tygerberg Zoo.
Pretty sure there weren’t bears there last time we visited (then again that was several years ago) was a lot of fun and I’d recommend a visit.