Blog’s

11 Nov 2013

Fauna & Flora

Flora Sutherland is the site of some fascinating and rare plant life. Not much rain falls in the district. When it does, the dry earth responds by erupting almost overnight into a multi-coloured carpet of wild flowers that stretches for kilometres in the nearby Hantam-Roggeveld. The star tree, or Cliffortia arborea, is...

09 Nov 2013

Snow

Brrrr… By South African standards, Sutherland is bitterly cold in winter. It lays claim to the coldest winters in the country. The mercury plunges well below zero at night, sometimes as low as -16 degrees Celsius, and the area gets heavy snow several times each winter. In their characteristically enterprising...

05 Oct 2013

Star Gazing

Look Up Over 25 000 years ago, the KhoiSan or Bushmen people who inhabited this region knew that time is in the stars. They had a remarkably extensive knowledge of the stars and wove this wisdom into the rhythm of their lives. The 19th-century scholar Dr Wilhelm Bleek, who studied their languages...

03 Oct 2013

What is this Karoo? Where is it? Is Sutherland in the Karoo? What’s Going on Here? Someone Help!

Right, Here Goes, Definition of the Karoo The first thing to fathom is where and what exactly the Karoo is. After that we’ll try to explain why people fall in love with it, as they always seem to do. Just to be clear, you’ll probably fall for its magic too.The...

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