Driving East – De Hoop Sand Dunes
After the meeting we hired a car and, after collecting it, I think we must have had an evening’s drive to the Chapman’s Peak Lookout...
Category: Past Times
Cango Ostrich Farm
From the sand dunes of De Hoop National Park we headed inland to Oudtshoorn in the region known as the Little Karoo. North of the...
Addo Elephant National Park
Addo Elephant National Park was founded in 1931 when, following a previous Government backed campaign to destroy the local elephant herds, there were only 11...
Returning to Cape Town
Having achieved our aim of seeing elephants at Addo National Park we returned to the coast and stayed overnight at Jeffreys Bay. Famous for surf...
Places we Stayed
I can’t find any record of just where we stayed, and when, but I do remember how pleasant our accommodation was, and at very reasonable...
Hobart – Wrest Point Hotel
We had been booked into the Wrest Point Hotel which is situated right beside the River Derwent. The lower section of the building is a...
Hobart – Town and River
Hobart is on the tidal part of the River Derwent. The Wrest Point Hotel was situated just east of the University and south of the...
Going to Cape Grim
At the end of the meeting we were given the option of visiting the CSIRO Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (CG BAPS) which first...
CSIRO Cape Grim Station
Cape Grim is just south of the isolated north-west tip (Woolnorth Point) of Tasmania. As a premier monitoring stations in the World Meteorological Organisation –...
Mount Field National Park
Having got back from Cape Grim on the Saturday, on Sunday I drove to Mount Field National Park which is about 82 km (51 miles)...