Accommodation Close To Waterval Boven

Saturday lunch time was the start of winter at our accommodation close to Waterval Boven. You can read Part 2 of my experience here.

What a surprise. The clouds rolled in from Waterval Boven. All of a sudden it started raining and got very cold.

Chris has built about 7 or 8 trout dams down the valley of the farm. The children went down the path along the dams to see where it ended. Obviously they got caught in the rain and came home dripping wet.

After a warm shower and (fortunately) warm clothes, we had lunch.

Christian noticed the fire place and made  a fire – I think it was also to get some shoes and socks dry.

Can you imagine – the rain, the cold and a warm fire place (without smoke). Because the accommodation at Treeferns Trout Lodge is spacious, it was quite pleasant to sit around the fire, watching the rain, talking and playing games (like children do).

Rain always makes me sleepy – so I took an afternoon nap.

The picture on the left hand side shows (from opposite our lodge) some of the trout dams down the valley.

Late Saturday afternoon, the rain stopped – then rained again – then stopped and so it carried on.

During one of the stops, somebody took a picture of the dam overflowing right at our doorstep. The dam wall is about 15 meters from the verandah where we sat  looking out over the dam.

During one of the breaks in raining, we had a braai (in the cold with our jackets on).

We enjoyed the quite and the rain, and prepared for bed.

Little did we know about the next season surprise on Sunday morning.

Click here to read about part 4 of our experience at Treeferns Trout Lodge, close to Waterval Boven.

Basson Family