Day 4 - Part 1: Mariental to farm Victory.
After the 'kuier' with the locals the previous night, the morning started a little slower than expected. I left Mariental in direction of Stampriet, Then I turned north on the M41.
Fist stop for the morning was op my Ouma se Plaas Auros. I spent a large part of my childhood on this farm. Later years when we lived in Walvisbaai, I spent most of my June/July and December holidays here. There I enjoyed good coffee and conversation with the new owner Rey Nel whom I met 10 years ago. Rey is an amazing versatile man. He is an accountant, a sheep farmer, he runs a butchery from the farm, he produces charcoal from indringer Prosopis trees and has recently started farming with quail (kwartels). A huge demand from upper class lodges in Namib for foreign customers.
From there I visited oom Piet and tannie Gerda Smit on their farm Soverby. Oom Piet still has the same good sense of humor that I remember of him. He advised me not to try and visit our old farm as he expected lots of water on the road and in the low lying pans on the way.
The road had some wet areas but nothing intimidating and I stopped to look at our old Plaas Opstal on farm Victory. (I was their in 2010 and knew what the state was. Below some pictures of where I grew up until the age of 10. (1977)
