To Our Champagne Valley Digs
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 30 Nov 2019 23:27
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To Our Champagne Valley Digs
  We left Richards Bay at eight thirty
with our trip companions Trevor and Kimi (Slow Flight), en route to the
Champagne Valley with stops at the battlegrounds of Isandhlwana and
Rourke’s Drift. Soon out in the countryside we
were to pass mile upon mile of eucalyptus forests and logging operations.
 An extensive area ready for planting eucalypts.
 Miles of rolling
hills.
   We passed a main collection depot, logs ready for when ‘the big trucks’
come.
 Twenty-five minutes later, a village.
  Sheep
grazing on the side of the road and cows on
the hill.
 Little
villages dotted about.
  A school
and a water mill.
 We’ll stop for
this chap then.........
   Mountains to our
left and then miles of flat scrubland before things got very dry
indeed.
 Over a hill we looked over our first
destination - Isandhlwana.
 After exploring the battlefield I got
the trio to pose, under what will now always be known
as Pepe’s Tree.
 Just as we left the site a little kid jumped on a rock and cried out for his mum, a
little way off.
    Scenery along the
way.
  We passed a small
village and saw a traditional prayer meeting,
all were dressed in white in the middle of a white stone circle.
   Approaching Rourke’s
Drift.
 Our digs in the
Champagne Valley.
  Inside, we
were welcomed by the owners of River Crossing – Ernest and Michelle. Then the
girls got down to unpacking all our kitchen stuff as the boys made short work of
emptying the car.
  To the left of the kitchen a double with en suite shower, to the right two singles with en suite shower. There was a little
argy-bargy but as soon as Beds had staked his claim and the beds were pushed
together, all was well.
 After
settling our belongings and enjoying sweet and sour chicken, we took drinks to
sit on the patio and take in our
scenery. Even in the dull evening light we could see this was a place of
beauty.
  A little
chap on the roof was very proud of finding some nesting material but in the
tree down the garden a big
boy had the little ones scarpering to hide and take advantage of an early
night, not that we did.......
 With darkness came the sight of farmland fires.
ALL IN ALL LOVELY SCENERY
ALONG THE WAY
GREAT TO SEE INSIDE THE
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