Day ride to Southernmost tip of Africa

[dual]

Day ride to L’Agulhas, Southernmost tip on African continent

Farm stall and some road food, biltong, dried beef





Salmonsdam gravel road





It’s green but we are going through a dry season, water restrictions in Western Cape



Our national bird, Blue crane





Kleinriver mountains in back



Sandy's Glen and a geocache









Heavy trailer for the bike





Water flowing





Elim









Wolvengat or Viljoenshof, one of the last places reachable by gravel only







The Southernmost wine farm on African continent



Tar to gravel







Container ship passing southernmost tip of Africa



Suiderstrand and two geocaches





Meisho Maru no 38, ran aground 16 Nov 1982







Southernmost point on African continent





Southernmost lighthouse



Struisbaai church







Bredasdorp



Napier



Sandy's Glen







Last view back on gravel



280 km of fun

[bodderboy]

Brilliant ride report illustrated with brilliant pictures. (thumbs)

[boboneleg]

Great stuff, I love the description of 'home built'

[chunky butt]

Excellent, really enjoyed that, great photos (thumbs)

[SteveW]

Great stuff.
I've got a partly formed plan to fly out to SA and rent a bike and take a trip to Rorkes Drift.
May be next year.

[WillS]

Great photos, looks a nice part of the world. Great trip. (thumbs)

[daveuprite]

Very good post. Just the kind of thing the forum should be for.

[coolbananas]

I'm coming over in September, for about 3 months and have decided to include your route plan to my Itinerary. Thanks for you ride report. (thumbs)

[V2orV4]

Thanks dual for another great report and photos! I have sent you a PM for a bit of advice please.
Steve.

[noodles]

Fantastic pics of a fantastic country ... been twice and its amazing, tried to talk my wife into going but she is worried thanks to the negative stuff you see and hear about but I loved it (thumbs)
Looks like that is an awsome route