The day started later with breakfast at 8. The cold offerings were everything you can imagine and then she served eggs, bacon and two kinds of sausage. We skipped lunch today,

We spent the day driving a couple of local mountain passes in the Oudtsshoorn area . The Swartberg Pass is for many South Africans, the Rubicon of gravel road passes. There is an allure and a mystique around this old pass. Thomas Bain, with the help of some 250 convict labourers built the pass from 1883 to 1886. He managed to keep the gradient lower than 1:8 throughout the pass, compared to the steeper 1:6 of the Montagu Pass. This pass ranks amongst the top10 South African passes in terms of the total package. There are others which are higher, longer, sharper, more dangerous, but there is only one Swartberg Pass. This is the one pass you must experience at least once in your lifetime.

The clouds from one side of the range spillover the other where it is Warner and they dissipate. It looks like the clouds are rolling down the mountains.

Then we found ourselves at Meiringspoort where there is a very pretty waterfall. Chris had a swim in what was very cold water.

A winery, the Karusa Vineyards, was walking distance from our lodgings. We all did a wine tasting except Chris who had beer. It was fun and a fun way to spend a couple of hours.

We had some quiet time before dinner st the Buffelsdrift Game Lodge. While there was game in the menu we all stick to what we knew. Again, prices are much less than in Canada.