This is an old trip we did , back in 2003 , taken with my old 4 meg Panasonic DMC-LC5.
Lietches clearing was an area of land cleared out by a farmer many years ago who anticipated that one day it would be a major traffic intersection ... still waiting !
Now it is a nice walk to a hut which also has a few dog kennels available for hunters [ I mean for the hunters dogs !] .
It involves a gradual uphill walk for about 1 1/2 hours followed by a gradual downhill walk for 1 1/2 hours with some reasonable scenery along the way
We used to always take a 'before' picture on our walks , Wayne , Jeremy and me ...
I won't claim to remember everything from that trip but a picture can tell the story and refresh my mind .
Jeremy insisted on carrying 1 1/2 litres of Coke ....
And Wayne was always trying to sneak it out of his pack ....
At one point there is a landslip which you have to work your way around .
And that's the hut ...
There is a nice swimming hole there , some people tie their food to a rope and hang it in the water to keep it cold which is why I never swam in it - I'm not too fond of freezing water .
This is a view of the hut from the nearby hill which was also nicely cleared away .
There were two families in the hut - with screaming kids so we decided to make shelter in the nearby trees ...
I think our shelter turned out pretty cozy in fact .....
We took a few videos that night , this was a thumbnail of one of the videos which included a lightsabre duel with our LED torches ...
But it was this trip that convinced me that I needed a new sleeping bag because there was a frost that night and my ears were sore when I woke up .
We had breakfast in the hut though .
Those two guys on the left were eating boerewors , I asked them if they were South African but they said that they just worked for a South African butcher .
Besides that it was a rather uneventful return journey and the scenery was good -though my photography wasn't so good back then .
I dropped Wayne off at home until the next adventure ....
Lietches clearing was an area of land cleared out by a farmer many years ago who anticipated that one day it would be a major traffic intersection ... still waiting !
Now it is a nice walk to a hut which also has a few dog kennels available for hunters [ I mean for the hunters dogs !] .
It involves a gradual uphill walk for about 1 1/2 hours followed by a gradual downhill walk for 1 1/2 hours with some reasonable scenery along the way
We used to always take a 'before' picture on our walks , Wayne , Jeremy and me ...
I won't claim to remember everything from that trip but a picture can tell the story and refresh my mind .
Jeremy insisted on carrying 1 1/2 litres of Coke ....
And Wayne was always trying to sneak it out of his pack ....
At one point there is a landslip which you have to work your way around .
This is a view of the hut from the nearby hill which was also nicely cleared away .
There were two families in the hut - with screaming kids so we decided to make shelter in the nearby trees ...
I think our shelter turned out pretty cozy in fact .....
But it was this trip that convinced me that I needed a new sleeping bag because there was a frost that night and my ears were sore when I woke up .
We had breakfast in the hut though .