Another gorge walk.

We left the excitement Friedenhof on Saturday morning and on our way to Montagu in the Little Karoo we slowly went back in time. I struck lucky this time, of all the places we passed through and explored on the way here Montagu is definitely the most pleasant with more restaurants and art galleries than would be expected in such a small provincial town. I am actually sad that I will be here for only 3 nights as I have not had a bad meal so far and there are places that I haven't tried yet.

Brilliant roadside stall on R62 which sells everything you might need

Harry and Marmalade strapped in.

Jacaranda trees near the Bree River

The temperatures are more pleasant with an expected high of 28C but even so I went early today to avoid the midday heat on a gorge walk up to the Avalon Springs thermal resort, this was a little less strenuous than the Samaria Gorge in Crete a distance of only 3km each way with refreshments at either end, you would have loved it Jane, just enough of a challenge to make you feel that you had earned that beer at the end, thought it was a little intimidating expecting baboons, snakes and leopards to ambush me at every turn but as it turned out that besides the myriad of birds that kept me company the only animal that contested my passage was a tortoise.

Did I just hear a baboon?

Cool place for a panad.

What lurks down that tunnel or in the bamboo???

He did't even blink as I walked past.