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Weekendmobile 🖤 #subaruoutback

Each year, as the boys get older, this place just becomes more magical. Thanks Phillip and Jenny.

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My dad (left) and his friend Paul at a motorbike race in the 1970s, being cooler than we’ll ever be. No VSCO required.

I recently bought a discounted @lyne_components dropper for my gravel bike, without thinking that the clamp for the lever would be for the diameter of a flat bar. (Dayle at Lyne hasn’t yet got a lever for drop bars.) Enter @tinkminster and his mechanical wizardry - he machined the inner of the clamp to fit the bar where it tapers. Radness will now ensue.

The end. Holiday over.

Final stop on Tour de CapeNature: Kogelberg Nature Reserve 💚💚💚 Book one of the eco cabins now, even if you can only get a weekend next February. They’re incredible.

Stop 5: Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve. I went for a ride in the conservancy outside the gate. The new cabins inside the reserve, built after a fire from mostly reclaimed materials, are superb. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ all round.

From the dusty Karoo to the emerald Garden Route - crazy how quickly the landscape can change in the space of a mountain pass. Scones at Eight Bells Mountain Inn, then down, down, down to the banks of the Goukamma River in Goukamma Nature Reserve near Knysna - stop four on Tour de CapeNature 🌅

I can’t recommend Gamkaberg Nature Reserve highly enough. It must be one of CapeNature’s best offerings, if not the best. A slice of pristine wilderness, incredible accommodation, knowledgable, attentive staff. At the moment there’s a 40% off winter special - R780 per night gets you your own private tented camp for four. Do it.

Steepest hill I’ve ever pushed up. Lawson’s Pass in Gamkaberg Nature Reserve near Oudtshoorn. After reading how @esmarnewick feared her bakkie might flip over backwards, I thought it only fitting to attempt on two wheels. The downhill was brisk. @coticbikes

Second stop on Tour de CapeNature was a confusing little reserve between Robertson and McGregor called Vrojlikheid, where we spent two nights in a rambling house on what was once a test farm to breed Jack Russells to hunt rats and dassies. Yup. We ate pizza in Robertson, visited Van Loveren wine estate, patted a stuffed leopard and played lonely putt-putt in the veld. Next stop, Gamkaberg Nature Reserve near Oudtshoorn.

Went for a hike, went for a bike ride, lost my sunglasses, went for another hike to find them (found them), saw a sunset. 20 000 steps later, I am tired.

Classic Cederberg, rediscovered through young eyes

Tour de CapeNature commences with three days in the Cederberg at Algeria. This afternoon’s walk was top-drawer 🌈

Napier Patatfees 🥔

Nearly got blown off the mountain but a bike ride never disappoints

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