To build a house in Stilbaai

TheLastGreen

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The church tower of Ventersdorp20211227_081608_002.jpg
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That blue is clouds20211227_090957.jpg
Past Bloemfontien20211227_105320.jpg
They say it's so flat here, that you can see your dog run away for 2 weeks over the horizon???
Mountains20211227_120940.jpg20211227_121005.jpg20211227_121631.jpg
The Orange river is overflowing, it's massive!20211227_122131.jpg
The Karroo20211227_122759.jpg20211227_123252.jpg
(Btw, it wasn't always this green. There has been a drought for 7 years, so when my grandparents were here in June, there was no grass, no green, it was dirt only the large shrubs that were dead. Now it has had massive rains and the ecosystem is rebounding and absolutely flourishing, good for the torts and all who call these lands home!)
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They have lived there for eons...please don't mess with them. Yep...it's fun to get a 'free' tort...but if everyone did that...consider Gopherus agassizii...People going to the Mojave picked up one or two tortoises then the crows ate the rest and Voila!!! Desert tortoises are threatened species.
So consider the house building takes place in one area...the place where people will be around. I know NOTHING about your kind of snake...I would walk around the work area with a broom or something and kind of "beat the brush" and give the snakes an opportunity to leave every day. Man a Cobra looking you in the eye would be towering over me...damn!!
A lot of the words you use are Greek to me...lol...but I can tell you are out there...so your grandparents are having you and your brother build a freakin house? Just like that? On public lands? Is there electricity? Water? Is like us populating the wild West
 

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I have traveled a lot and seen a lot of different stuff...but I think this trip is showing me a way of life that I can't even imagine...as I stand typing this with my 50 inch tv screen behind me... my electricity, WiFi, cable, house phone...and on and on...to see a tort in the wild...what a freakin adventure!!! I am so jealous...lol...maybe
 
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