About Us

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE WE ARE IN CAPE TOWN OTHER THAN TO MENTION CAMPS WE ARE STAYING IN, THIS BLOG WILL BE DORMANT UNTIL WE LEAVE UP THE W COAST IN MAY Entertainer Derek Gordon along with wife Christel, brother-in-law photographer Bernd Weimar and "hond" Jack the Russell are off on a minimum one year motorhome tour of the country. It has been a lifetime ambition to undertake this trip, put off many,many times, but come May 5th 2011, now a reality It is our intention to head up the East coast, Wild coast and into N.Kwa Zulu Natal. From there we will cross Umpumalanga into Botswana and eventually Namibia. Finally we head down the West coast back to Cape Town. The trip should take a year but that is not a factor. If we like a place we stay, if not we move on. I will attempt to do shows where and whenever I can as well as selling our artworks and T-Shirts at Farmers and Arts and Crafts markets as we go. It is not our intention to make money but merely subsidise our expenses. Follow this blog to find out where we are, who we've met, where we've stayed and how much its cost. We remain contactable by email at dpgordon@webmail.co.za

28 August 2011

Stunning Pic


Bernie lay with his ear to the ground for more than an hour as he waited for the sun to position itself behind this 6 inch dandelion to get this great shot ....... much to the amusement of passers by who had no idea of what he was trying to do.

We have great expectations for the future of this picture


Midland Splendour


Another view of our campsite in Nottingham Road


Not to be outdone


Our hero handling NOT one NOT two but three of the worlds most deadly harmless snakes ...... or so I was told


Crazy


Quinton one of the handlers at the park playing "chicken" with a Boomslang


At the snake park


An Iguana called "Chicken". We watched him change colour from a battleship grey to bright orange


26 August 2011

Great Scot not a bad shot


Like to say I took this one. Bernie got this brillianft shot of the mist moving acorss the lake in front of our site.


Ain't tihs just great

Our dining room on the waterfront
Bernie off in a row boat to capture scores of weaver birds busy with their spring building

Arrival at Glen Sheiling Caravan park Nottingham Road


Aah the setting. Our own trout filled lake, row boat, table tennis table, pool table and dining area on the waterfront

Taking a break while setting up


Don't be fooled by the facade


A Ragged tooth shark casting his beady eye on Bernie and challenging him to do an Addo and come into the water to see if sharks eat Germans

What looks like a derilict rusting tramp steamer is actually the entrance to "USHAKA" the very impresive Durban Aquarium


In Durban


Bernie after refusing the exhorbitant fee to photograph the "Rickshaw Guy" got him to take this pic for FREE

Wot unbelievable talent - this lad did this sand sculpture to commemorate Madiba's Birthday only to see it erode away in the wind


Whale Watching at "The Hole"

The "Hole in the Wall"

Bernie's Coffee Bay Breakaway

Bernie with war paint to disguise his true age pulls a "Poppie" from Holland

Arrival in Coffee Bay
These pics are a little off the time line but for the interest of people who may have already seen previous pics and dont scroll down

25 August 2011

Braai at "The Hole"


Having failed with the Dutch Poppie Bernie consoles himself with a fellow German tourist


22 August 2011

They need a lift

Went to have a drink with Dick Muir at the Boks Hotel in Umglanga, also got the autographs of the World Cup Squad

House of "Conception"


Went to have a look at the house we stayed in on Umglanga Beach in the early seventies opposite the Beverley Hills Hotel. It is now a restaurant and also the place my first daughter Nikki was conceived.