Spekboom River, South Africa
Nooitgedacht Trout Lodge nestled in the valley below It took longer than expected to drive from Swaziland to the trout belt in Mpumalanga, thanks in most part to South Africa's deteriorating roads, but vast dust clouds had also slowed traffic. I don't remember South Africa being so dusty but perhaps it was always that way. Our youngest child had woken up by the time we drove into the lively town of Dullstroom, the so-called trout capital of South Africa, and he had begun to exercise his fast developing vocal chords. Moans had turned to sobs and sobs to screams by the time we pulled off the road at a biltong shop. Some droë wors, a cured sausage, bought some extra quiet time from him on the onward journey. Seen at a restaurant in Dullstroom. We still had an hour to go, and the road from Dullstroom to Lydenburg had become horribly potholed since my last visit a decade ago. Once past Lydenburg we turned onto a gravel road which we would follow for 15km to our destination, Nooitged...
