JERINOMO
Race Dog
Total distance: 350km
Avg. Speed: ± 50km/hr
Duration: 7hrs
Stage 1:
It was quite a chilly Sunday morning, round about 10°C, a bit overcast and a rain forecast was predicted for the evening. I know its warm weather for you Gautengers, but since I moved to PE five years ago, I became a real softie with regards to cold weather.
RS and I got together round about 07:00 at the filling station at Mike’s Kitchen in Mount Pleasant, PE. We rode all along the coastline till we reached Maitland mouth, climbed onto the R102 and on our way to Jeffery’s Bay. Before we got to J-Bay, RS took me to the Gamtoos river mouth where he gave me my “dirt road initiation”. It’s a left turn off the R102, follow the tar road for a while and turn right onto a dirt road.(Photos attached) This road takes you directly to the old Gamtoos river bridge.
Check the worry in my eye.
The road was full of ramps and bumps. RS made a few jumps with his Katoom 990R, and I just followed blindly. Don’t know if I got airborne but at least it sounded like it when the revs went up and the suspension bottomed out on landing.
Our first stop was at the Walskipper restaurant in J-Bay. We didn’t go in but I visited before. It’s a very primitive restaurant with beach sand for a floor, tin cups and plates. The heating system is a “koolstoof” in the centre of the restaurant with a chimney that branch out all over the roof. The light shades are turned over milk buckets. On that centre “koolstoof” is fresh home baked bread with butter and homemade apricot jam. All the food is cooked on firewood. A definite try if you haven’t done it yet. The food is very tasty.
Parking area in front of the Walskipper. (Dolphin Street, Marina Martinique, Jeffereys Bay.)
From there we went over the low water bridge into Paradise beach and took the dirt road to Humansdorp. On our way to Humansdorp we came across one of the most spectacular antelope in the animal kingdom. A big Sable Antelope bull. He was sleeping next to the fence where he was rudely awakened by the grunting of an “orange” V-Twin. We stopped and were surprised at how close we got to him. It was then that we realized why he was not in a mood to run off. Across the road on the other side was another big Sable Bull with about thirty ladies laying down 100m from the fence. These two were facing each other off and to their dismay were separated by two game fences and a dirt road. I suppose it’s a good thing because they are an endangered species and is probably part of a breeding program. Knowing a Sable’s character, they would definitely go at each other, probably to the death of one of them. They are very proud and aggressive by nature.
Bull on the left
Bull on the right. I turned around to get a good look at him.
Humansdorp was the next stop for a breakfast at the Wimpy.
Travel distance: 95km(Mostly Tar)
Average speed: 80km/hr
Duration: ± 1hr
Avg. Speed: ± 50km/hr
Duration: 7hrs
Stage 1:
It was quite a chilly Sunday morning, round about 10°C, a bit overcast and a rain forecast was predicted for the evening. I know its warm weather for you Gautengers, but since I moved to PE five years ago, I became a real softie with regards to cold weather.
RS and I got together round about 07:00 at the filling station at Mike’s Kitchen in Mount Pleasant, PE. We rode all along the coastline till we reached Maitland mouth, climbed onto the R102 and on our way to Jeffery’s Bay. Before we got to J-Bay, RS took me to the Gamtoos river mouth where he gave me my “dirt road initiation”. It’s a left turn off the R102, follow the tar road for a while and turn right onto a dirt road.(Photos attached) This road takes you directly to the old Gamtoos river bridge.
Check the worry in my eye.
The road was full of ramps and bumps. RS made a few jumps with his Katoom 990R, and I just followed blindly. Don’t know if I got airborne but at least it sounded like it when the revs went up and the suspension bottomed out on landing.
Our first stop was at the Walskipper restaurant in J-Bay. We didn’t go in but I visited before. It’s a very primitive restaurant with beach sand for a floor, tin cups and plates. The heating system is a “koolstoof” in the centre of the restaurant with a chimney that branch out all over the roof. The light shades are turned over milk buckets. On that centre “koolstoof” is fresh home baked bread with butter and homemade apricot jam. All the food is cooked on firewood. A definite try if you haven’t done it yet. The food is very tasty.
Parking area in front of the Walskipper. (Dolphin Street, Marina Martinique, Jeffereys Bay.)
From there we went over the low water bridge into Paradise beach and took the dirt road to Humansdorp. On our way to Humansdorp we came across one of the most spectacular antelope in the animal kingdom. A big Sable Antelope bull. He was sleeping next to the fence where he was rudely awakened by the grunting of an “orange” V-Twin. We stopped and were surprised at how close we got to him. It was then that we realized why he was not in a mood to run off. Across the road on the other side was another big Sable Bull with about thirty ladies laying down 100m from the fence. These two were facing each other off and to their dismay were separated by two game fences and a dirt road. I suppose it’s a good thing because they are an endangered species and is probably part of a breeding program. Knowing a Sable’s character, they would definitely go at each other, probably to the death of one of them. They are very proud and aggressive by nature.
Bull on the left
Bull on the right. I turned around to get a good look at him.
Humansdorp was the next stop for a breakfast at the Wimpy.
Travel distance: 95km(Mostly Tar)
Average speed: 80km/hr
Duration: ± 1hr
