S1 - Ep 157 - Carnarvon - A Town Situated South of the Karee Mountains!
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Upon arriving in Carnarvon, we could see that it is a town that went through a difficult phase but it's pulling itself back into shape. It is situated south of the Karee Mountains and is surrounded by many flat-top hills. It has some cool things in the area, like the old fort that was built on the top of one of these hills, ‘Koelkop’, which overlooks the town. It was quite the struggle to find the road leading to the top, but we did find it eventually and it was fascinating to see this old fort and the great view of the entire town. Another place of interest was the corbelled house at the museum. We couldn’t go in because it was over a weekend and it was closed. Then we headed to Sandrivier Guest Farm, not too far out of town, where we spent the evening totally off the grid. #DustBugs #adventuretravel #southafrica #southafricavlog #carnarvon #sandrivierguestfarm #fort #koelkop
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My heart goes wild just to see my beautifull karoo... beautifull open space and fresh air ..that is where my heart is and where I grew up ... on a beautifull karoo farm with all this and our merino wool sheep...WOW thankyou for this trip..
We love the Karoo too, there is no place quite like it! 😍 We love the silence and can 'listen' to it for hours on end. The flat-top hills in this part of the Karoo fascinated us and we enjoyed every moment we spent in this area. Thank you for sharing your feelings about this special place. We appreciate you coming along! 🤩🚗
I cant get enough of your content sir/madam keep it up. cant wait for the next episode....
Wow, how much your comment means to us, thank you. 🤩 We love our trips and making these videos and to hear that you enjoy them, is fantastic!
Baie Dankie was lekker ❤
Love the Karoo.
What a Beautifull Sunset and Sun rise...
Thank you, the colours were truly spectacular. The fact that there is no pollution, make them even more beautiful. What a fantastic way to start and end the day. 🌄
Well done. Memories of this town came up. Thank you
We loved the landscape here, so typical Karoo! And our cottage on the farm was fantastic, we really had a good time! 😁🚗 Thank you for coming to Carnarvon with us!
Carnarvon...brings back memories of the seventies...
😁 Love that! I'm sure you explored that whole area when you used to work there frequently. Some of these towns are certainly trapped in the past.
@@DustBugsTravel Yes have worked quite a few towns in the Karoo but unfortunately many if not most of them have gone to rack and ruin. So sad.
What spectacular views and a beautiful place where you're staying. These scenes always remind me of my favorite Afrikaans Poem "Karoo-dorp Someraand" by NP van Wyk Louw...it sets the tone of what you're experiencing.
And what a beautiful poem it is too. 🙂 We were fortunate to have a 'koper skemer' that evening, it was truly spectacular. 🌄 We enjoyed the views over the town too, those were surprising and unexpected.
For me as a Kalahari kid, there are very few scenes as beautiful as a gravel road through long grass in the Northern Cape. And the sounds of silence! Never been to Carnarvon though so this was extra special!
Thank you so much! 😊 Your description of a gravel road through long grass sounds like a place we'd like to be right about now. 🚗 Glad you enjoyed this one!
I was born but didn't stay here. Apparently I was the doctor and hospital's first cesarean section baby. 😮 My grandfather farmed in the area so my mother grew up here.
I went back many(!) years later and it looked like time stood still as not a lot has changed during this time.
Absolutely Awesome and to see the Corbel House and the Drone footage wow. Thank you always so much
We loved the corbelled house too! Such a pristine example of what they look like. 🛖 Happy to hear you enjoyed the drone footage, we just love the Karoo landscape and can never get enough of it. 🤩
This episode was great, the flat top hills something quite different from the norm, those round stone buildings quite something unique to tha area. Beautiful, loved your accommodation. Well done and thank you.
Those flat-top hills are amazing and there are so many of them around. 😃 We're also fascinated by the corbelled houses, especially by how ingenious the builders of times gone by actually were, they were truly skilled craftsmen.
Loving the drone footage of your little cottage & surrounds!
Thank you, guys! It was such a cute little place which lent itself perfectly to the shots from above! 😁
nice,🤣 next time passenger must open the gate
😁 That can easily be arranged. It'll be off-camera though. 😉🙃
My Dad and myself held tennis clinics annually on the school courts during 1980s and 90s. Kids came from all over the area. Miss him and those days.
A bittersweet memory for you. They sound like good times. 😊🎾
I was one of those kids. I went to three tennis clinics in total. 2 in Carnarvon and one in Graaf Reinett. I lived there from age 3 to 16, but my mother kept living there up till 5 years ago.
So beautiful view
It really was, we could see the whole town, without a drone! 😁
Its an interesting place Carnarvon, I wonder what else they do apart from farm sheep and probably game. Those black and white sheep looked like Jacobs sheep - which are a very hardy breed, but there was another breed with them, the ones which had black faces and white bodies - not sure what they are. Another lovely video - such beautiful veld and so peaceful too.Thanks.
Thank you so much for watching, we're glad you enjoyed this one. 😊 We think you hit the nail on the head with sheep and game, but there might very well be other farming activities in the area which we did not see. We're not experts on livestock by any stretch of the imagination, but we think the white sheep with the black heads are Dorper. We did some digging on Google and saw the Jacobs sheep have horns. We couldn't remember seeing horns on the ones in our video, but they might've been too far away. Their markings reminded us of Nguni cattle and we note that one gets Nguni sheep too, so perhaps that's what they are. 🐑 🤔
@@DustBugsTravel I am no expert on sheep either. So I'll take your word for it!But we live and we learn, hey? Your trips are endlessly interesting to me - how do you chose your destinations?
Our main criteria is that our route must include places we've never been to before, for the most part. Then we need to make sure that we're able to comfortably complete our chosen route in seven days, from Monday to Sunday. That's about it. 😁
Persian Sheep. Persie Skape....Fat tails. Dorpers do not have Fat tails.
I lived in Carnarvon from 1964 till 1968. It was a busy town. Carnarvon High School. Was the center of attraction. We even watched Mannetjies Roux play rugby there. Summer time was the time for the most delicious prickley pears and scary 'koringkrieke', armoured crickets.
Thank you for sharing those wonderful memories of your time in Carnarvon, it certainly sounds like it was a very lively and vibrant place! 🤩 Those crickets are huge, we saw one on the Zeekoegat gravel road when we were travelling from Vosburg to Carnarvon! 😁🪲
The Yellow bridge……so pretty 😍
Beautiful setting where the cottage is👌👌👌
This is a good one! I stayed in exactly the same cottage as you did but about 5 years ago while enroute from Limpopo to the Winelands. One of the best places to overnight in the Karoo.I think the guesthose owner's name is Chantelle. Pity the railway is not working anymore. Many moons ago there was steam locomotives used for traction.
How amazing is that! Thank you for sharing that memory with us. Yes, the owner is Shantelle and she was a great host. We agree, it is a fantastic place to stay. We especially appreciated the silence of the surrounding Karoo landscape. 😁🚗 We would've absolutely loved seeing a steam locomotive like on the sign! 🚂
The town between 2 dams!!!!
Thanks for a splendid Northern Cape Tour.....I see there's camping facilities at Sandrivier....🤔🤔🤔mmm ...
Thank you for joining us on this trip. 👍🏻 In Thursday's episode, we head home and on Saturday it will be the first episode of a brand new trip and province. 🤩 We saw the camping facilities mentioned on the nameboard, but we didn't see them, so not exactly sure where they are.
Ohhh the Church👍👌👌👌
Thanks guys!🙏🏻❤️
Anytime. 👌🏻🚗
I'm enjoying your videos , While I realize you were at the end of your week I wish you had a bit more time to visit the MeerKat telescope, the Meerkat telescope is 90km from Carnarvon assuming of course you could get entry
Last train running between De Aar and Calvinia was early 2000. This was more for flower tours
That's interesting to know. So many stations are now defunct and abandoned, so sad. 🚇
If you look very carefully at the koppies outside Carnarvon next to the railway line, you will see more "skanse," or mini forts that were used by the British.
In addition it produces probably the best mutton in the country.
It was also the only town in the country where white and non white were divided by only one street during the height of apartheid.
So much history in this area, we appreciate you taking the time to share that with us. We just love those flat-top hills surrounding Carnarvon. 😍 Little did we know they contain so much history!
My pa was Nicky Mc Kinnon. Hy was een van die drie "mechanics" op die dorp. My ma is Liz Mc Kinnon sy het n' bloemiste en klerewinkel gehad en later n' koffiewinkel. Dit was so n' voorreg om op so n' kleindorpie te kon grootword. Ek wens my dogterjie kon die selfde ondervinding gekry het.
Murraysburg
We visited Murraysburg not too long ago. You can watch the video of our visit in Episode 178. I hope you enjoy this one too! 😁🚗
My Wife's hometown
What a pleasant place. Those rock formations are absolutely amazing. Those cyclists... Lots of guts
We met the cyclists at Noorspoort outside Steytlerville and they were preparing for the Trans Baviaans from Willowmore to Jeffreys Bay the next day. Super fit guys those, I take my hat off to them! 🚵🏻 Those rock formations at Draaikrans were something else! 🪨
I think Lord Carnavon was the wealthy British dude who sponsored The archeologist Carter’s excavation that finally found King Tuttankamun’s tomb in Egypt.I highly doubt the town is named after him. More probably some Brit general who shared his name
We're no history buffs. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♂️ Wikipedia says the town was initially called Harmsfontein and renamed in 1874 to Carnarvon after the British Colonial Secretary, Lord Carnarvon, who lived from 1831 to 1890.
@@DustBugsTravel I will be damned. You are right. It’s the same Lord Carnavon. The Earl of Carnavon. Didn’t think the British were that arrogant . Naming a South African town after a dude that never stepped his foot in this country!!
So what was the purpose of the Corbel houses(have no idea at all)
My research shows that they were built by migrant stock farmers as dwellings and they used available raw materials like sandstone and dolerite and the corbelling method since there wasn't enough wood around for supporting roof trusses. Apparently they made for quite comfortable homes back then! 🏚️
Why not drive slower through these Karoo towns that are such gems. I’m interested in the older homes and architecture, you passed some really lovely homes with gables and some with those huge cool colonial stoeps that I love so much. Thanks for the very quick, but interesting drive through Carnarvon, you were right, the town was named after Lord Carnarvon.
We're never the only ones on the road, so can't crawl along and hold up other vehicles. If we spot something we're interested in, we usually stop to have a closer look, if traffic and time allow for it. The town is worth a visit, you should go! 🚙😁
Orania. Looks like diss
We've never been to Orania, we will have to go and see on a future trip! Appreciate you watching. 🤙🏻
The railway was close due to vandalism. Wooden Sleepers had been remove in some areas of the track. The cost to fix the tracks was to high.
I'm sure we crossed the railway line from town on the farm we stayed. It was evident that a train hadn't run there for a very long time. Such a pity that once-prosperous towns are struggling now that the railway lines are no longer operational. We see this in so many small towns in the Karoo and elsewhere. Thank you for sharing the interesting info. 🚇
Dalmatian sheep🤣🤣🤣🤣
what happened to that fatty Biltong you baught?
Uhm, we ate it! 😁🥓