Gerald: Thanks for sharing these wonderful photos. They are the nicest wedding photos I have ever seen (and I am not exaggerating!) Best of luck to the happy couple.

Joe

That is really sad for the swimmer. Swimming sure is hazardous in SA. Maybe that is why most people have pools.

James, I had missed seeing this post at the time you made it, sorry. The beach sand was a coarse sand, but still a sand and not pebbles. Ave diameter under 0.1"

An interesting picture of Cape Town's "city bowl" area:
http://virtualafrica.co.za/virtual-t...how-we-did-it/

Expand that pic to full screen, and then drag/zoom

Cape Town is amazing. I like how the mountains wrap the city and exit into the ocean. The process for the panaramic was intense and ingenious. Gave me a few ideas of future projects. Now the shark attacks, if we ever visit, have sealed the deal for us staying "Land Lovers" :) I need my 2 legs.

Thanks for that update Gerald.

Hi there i lived like next ot for 13 years.
Looks cool doesnt it?

snap er echt geen bal van

Hoezit!!

At the time of the Great Trek, the trekkers found a signpost near today's Bloemfontein which said:

Na die Transvaal (with an arrow pointing straight ahead), and
To Natal (with an arrow pointing right)

Those who could read Afrikaans went straight ahead, those who understood English turned right. And those who couldn't read stayed there. ;)

Thats why my aunt married an Englishman. So that I could one day end up in Natal without being able to read any English sign boards. :)

'n Kapenaar: iemand op siek verlof toe die Groot Trek begin het.

As die Kaap die weer van Pretoria gehad het, dan was daar nie 'n Groot Trek nie.

Tswaniaaner wens hulle kan eerder stil, stil Kaap toe trek.:)

A 74-year-old man was arrested for possession of dagga valued at R250,000 in the Eastern Cape police said on Wednesday.

Ish 'n lekka plek, ne?

Wackey Wednesday!

Keep quite you G3 K3 or something similar.....All the okes unfit for army were left behind in the Cape. Only the STRONG ones made it up here.

En toe word hulle dors!

Net die groot ouens met die kwaai vrouens kon oor die Drakensberg kom. Die res het maar gebly en gewag totdat die teerpad klaar was.:D

En die wat moeg en dronk was het agter gebly in bloemfontein.
En die klop is nogsteeds hier.
Ons sal eendag besef dit is nie so lekker in die middel nie.

Vaaldam

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Kobus, did you finish the 3ply Ark profiles! The flood is coming Papa!
Any strange objects washing up on the beach there Hennie?
Watch out for the relocation of informal townships? :D

Need to replace some roofsheeting from the wind we get so it might come in handy.I just got into boatbuilding!

Hennie, how is the drought in your corner of the country?

It is BAD ,we get some drops of rain but just enough to dirty ones car.I am busy with plumbing work to use the bath and shower water for the garden.The worst thing of it all is that when they show its going to rain in our area one can actully see it raining over the ocean and not inland in the catchment area.The other thing is that when it eventually rains it floods everything like three years ago.The same heat that you had in December is what we have every day, about three weeks ago it got to a point that the workshop got so hot that I sent the workers home.

Hey there guys.
I`m starting to plan my mm and would really appreciate some local help.
Do any of you own a mm because some photo would help me allot.
Im in bloemfontein and i kow most of you are in cpt and jhb and pretoria

Look in this thread to see the Mechmates that are working already:

http://www.mechmate.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=78

Gerald I think that MM from the Free state is not going to be blue:).Borries vra ons sal almal help sterkte.

Thanks i`m going to need it.
Im kind of lucky because i work at a manufacturing company and i get the
steel, cutting and bending really cheap. Well i actually just pay for the steel
the rest the do for free.
If you guys have anything i can help with let me know.

Flying 101 . . . . teaching South Africans about airplanes:

http://blog.flightstory.net/1472/kul...-funny-livery/

Gerald, I love that plane, it brings back the fun in flying :)