Frozen Cape
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Frozen Cape
Got up early this morning to catch the sunrize over snow caped mountains around Worcester and Ceres
We decided not to go up the snow trail because of the vast amount of vehicles queing at the gate, will go some day in the week
We decided not to go up the snow trail because of the vast amount of vehicles queing at the gate, will go some day in the week
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Re: Frozen Cape
Really supurb pics
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Re: Frozen Cape
Daai was my mik en druk, my vrou het die groot kanon, sal n paar kiekies by haar bedel.
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Re: Frozen Cape
She gave me only one,should make a good backround.
De Doorns reflection
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Re: Frozen Cape
Great photo's Hoppy... Thanks... Believe the road between Richmond and Beaufort West is closed due to snowfalls... hope I can get home tomorrow...otherwise I have to spend another coooooollllld night at Gariep dam
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Re: Frozen Cape
Toe ek vandag terug ry van JHB DBN toe sien ek Sanie en omtrend die hele berg is ook dik van die sneeu.
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Re: Frozen Cape
Die laaste foto is besonders mooi!
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Re: Frozen Cape
Here are some photo's of some of the snow around Queenstown today (Sunday), they were taken from the top of Maderia
Mountain that overlooks Queenstown.
It was bitterly cold up there and the wind factor was minus 5 C. To get to the top of the mountain was quiet dicey as well, there was an Eskom bakkie three quarters of the way up, the guy chickened out because he was unsure if he could drive down again, anyway rather safe than stupid.
The snow will still be up there for a few days to come as well.
The rubber glove in the ice looked quite eerie .... I hope it was just a glove!
Mountain that overlooks Queenstown.
It was bitterly cold up there and the wind factor was minus 5 C. To get to the top of the mountain was quiet dicey as well, there was an Eskom bakkie three quarters of the way up, the guy chickened out because he was unsure if he could drive down again, anyway rather safe than stupid.
The snow will still be up there for a few days to come as well.
The rubber glove in the ice looked quite eerie .... I hope it was just a glove!
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Re: Frozen Cape
It was awesome up there, the gloove, well there were some guys repairing the drains up here a few weeks back, maybe one of them decided to stay behind Andy thanks for the pic's
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Re: Frozen Cape
Wonderful picture guys. Thanks for sharing.
Hoppy, I love that pic your begged from your wife. Really beautiful photography.
Hoppy, I love that pic your begged from your wife. Really beautiful photography.
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Thanks for sharing the great pics guys... hier by ons het ons net koud gekry en glad nie sulke mooi scenery nie
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Re: Frozen Cape
Looks like the cape is frozen everywhere
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Simoan, you put you one shoe on backwards...
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Either that or he is seriously pigeon-toed!ThysdJ wrote:
Simoan, you put you one shoe on backwards...
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Re: Frozen Cape
You're not supposed to laugh at cripples!
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Or he's lost..Mud Dog wrote:Either that or he is seriously pigeon-toed!ThysdJ wrote:
Simoan, you put you one shoe on backwards...
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Re: Frozen Cape
Nay, he was just 'knyping' very hard ..... (too cold to haul it out and pass ... if he could still find it, that is)!
When your road comes to an end ...... you need a HILUX!.
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers ... what you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
Don't take life too seriously ..... no-one gets out alive.
It's not about waiting for storms to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
And be yourself ..... everyone else is taken!
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers ... what you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
Don't take life too seriously ..... no-one gets out alive.
It's not about waiting for storms to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
And be yourself ..... everyone else is taken!
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Re: Frozen Cape
Never mind frozen Cape... my flipping office is flipping freezing today... the wall panel heater is taking a 6 love beating... and I'm underdressed!
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Re: Frozen Cape
Awesome pics, thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for sharing. Love the wife's Photo of the dam Hoppy. Simon did not know if he was coming or going in his pitcher. We had no snow down this way, but for us it was still bitterly cold.
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Re: Frozen Cape
Andy we call it Tweezer weather, because when you go for a P you have to use Tweezers to find it.
I heard from a farmer friend of mine that farms up above the Penhoek Pass, he tells me that the snow on his farm was over half a meter deep, another farmer friend that I know that farms near Burgersdorp has a Uni-mog and he tells me that it also gets stuck in the snow, they get over a metre of snow at times, awesome stuff to drive through, they say that the diffs are the problem, they start to stack the snow up as they drive.
I heard from a farmer friend of mine that farms up above the Penhoek Pass, he tells me that the snow on his farm was over half a meter deep, another farmer friend that I know that farms near Burgersdorp has a Uni-mog and he tells me that it also gets stuck in the snow, they get over a metre of snow at times, awesome stuff to drive through, they say that the diffs are the problem, they start to stack the snow up as they drive.
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