Day 6 - Namaqualand Flower Tour

Breakfast at Jakkalswater

Augrabies Falls

Breakfast at 0730 with the young son, Alwyn, preparing our meal. He was very fancy with garnishes of strawberry on the yogurt and orange twirls on the main plate.
We are off to the Augrabies National Park passing through Springbok which is about thirty km from Nabebeep, travelling northeast.
Poffadder which only has a population of 500. No chemist or doctor and all businesses like the petrol station, cafe, etc owned by one family. The town is named after "Klass Poffadder" - a Khoisan gentleman and not a the snake as everyone surmises.
Directly after Poffadder we enter the region known as Boesmanland which miles and miles of vast flat land.

The Gorge on The Orange River

Augrabies Falls

1100 saw us do a pit stop at
The Augrabies Falls is one of the events of this road trip that I have been waiting for.
It is every bit as beautiful as what I expected and more.
The Augrabies Falls is a waterfall on the Orange River, South Africa, within theAugrabies
Falls National Park. The falls are around 60m in height. The original Khoikhoi residents named the waterfall Ankoerebis, "place of big noises", from which the Trek Boers, who settled here later on, derived the name Augrabies.
The falls have recorded 7,800 cubic metres (280,000 cu ft) of water every second in floods in 1988 (and 6,800 cubic metres Niagara Falls of 2,400 cubic metres (85,000 cu ft) per second, more than four times Niagara's annual average, and greater than Niagara's all-time record of 6,800 cubic metres (240,000 cu ft) per second.
(240,000 cu ft) in the floods of 2006). This is over three times the average high season flow rate of
The gorge at the Augrabies Falls is 240 m deep and 18 km long, and is an impressive example of granite erosion.
Our temperature in this part of the country is 34 deg today and all jackets are packed away.
Tonight we are back in Kakemas for our last night of the trip