Well, this may have been my last Underberg Adventure for a while. My friends at Pevensey Jeff and Brigid are moving back to their town home soon. I drove to the farm early on Saturday morning to spend the weekend.
On Sunday morning we finally had good flying weather to video the Umzimkulu River for the Drakensberg Challenge Canoe Race organisers. We headed up towards Drakensberg Gardens, but the Bantam fix winged microlight encountered nasty turbulence at the entrance to the large valley where the canoe race starts on the Umzimkulu River. We turned round and concentrated on filming from a bit further downstream where the air was more calm and would make low level flying safer. The 2 day race ends at Umzimkulu River Lodge about 60 kilometres from the start.
After flying the Umzimkulu, Brigid packed a picnic lunch for us and we headed up Mahwaqa mountain behind the farm on the quads. Low cloud was starting to roll in from the Bulwer side of the mountain, so we didn't stay up there all afternoon. We stopped and looked at waterfalls in deep ravines, flowers and skittish buck. Lunch was at a small stream. We were looking for
one waterfall in particular, but didn't locate it because the mist was getting thicker. We turned round and went exploring on a lower stretch of the mountain, before heading for the farm house.
That afternoon a very mean thunder storm came up, but passed in the distance.
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