- Just turned off onto road into Gamkaskloof (Die Hel) and visibility a bit better
- Sign: Dangerous road ahead for 48km Use at own Risk!
- Better part of the road into Die Hel... still reasonably dry so no slippery clay
- Chantel's gloves giving off die
- Road towards Die Hel
- Final descent into Die Hel... you can see the trecherous turns and steep winding narrow road
- Narrow road for the final descent
- Entrance to Nature Reserve and Gamkaskloof Valley known as The Hell
- Stappies Cordier House where we stayed in The Hell
- Bathroom with disabled facilities
- View out of the bathroom
- Solar power for the houses in the Nature Reserve
- Stappies Cordier House History
- Going for a walk along The Hell Valley
- Sign that greets you before reaching the shop
- Old abandoned car
- Old abandoned car
- Entrance to the shop
- Restaurant and shop in The Hell
- Old car
- Another view of the restaurant and shop
- Remains of an old ox wagon
- Old ox wagon
- More solar panels
- Old machinery
- McCormick-Deering
- Peacock
- Road to Hell....
- Pietjie and Hester Swanepoel's House
- Donkey's used for the 4 day trail
- Oupa Piet Mostert's House
- Entrance to caravan stands
- Caravan Hettie for accommodation.... aparently towed in with a 4x4
- Ablution block for caravan stands
- Typical empty caravan stand... very neat and tidy
- Old cast iron poles for phone lines
- Close up view of old GPO phone pole from 1950's
- Old GPO poles made in London
- Us in The Hell
- Road through The Hell
- 3 Course supper from the restaurant with the sparkling wine we brought with
- Drinks by the fire
- Kitchen in house at The Hell
- Lovely old stove
- Road out of The Hell.... drizzling and I'm worried that the wet rocks in the road surface will be slippery (also started the video here which will be uploaded later)
- Flooded river with Chantel wading across to check depth and size of rocks... came up to over her knees at some point with medium size boulders which need to be avoided
- Can see the wet slippery clay on the tyres... this is on a better stretch out of The Hell
- Better view of the slippery clay
- Found the Swartberg Pass geocache
- Final stretch of road out of The Hell... may look more levl but my biggest worry was the slippery clay and much of it was ridden in 1st gear and took nearly 4 hours to get out
- Stopped by the Platberg Circle Route sign
- Top of Swartberg Pass
- Just over top of Swartberg Pass about to descend down towards Prince Albert
- Tight rurns on Swartberg Pass
- Majestic Swartberg Mountains and the pass snaking down the mountain
- Old jail ruins lower down on the Swartberg Pass
- Swartberg Pass
- Swartberg Pass mountains rocks
- Bike looking decidely more dirty
- Swartberg Pass was closed on the Prince Albert side when we exited the pass
- No Fracking signs in Prince Albert on the trees
- No Fracking Signs at Prince Albert
- I Love the Karoo!
- This seemed a bit of a rip off in Prince Albert... well over a half hour and R36 each (and the shop was not busy)
- Road out of Prince Albert
- Chantel could not find her wallet with R600 after we left The Hell... but she picked up this 1985 10c coin in the veld
- Karoo landscape near Prince Albert
- Karoo landscape
- Old English Blockhouse guarding a railway bridge from Anglo-Boer War around 1901 (skew angles are my cameras wide angle view)
- Kosmos guesthouse where we stayed in Sutherland
- Wind pumps in gardens at Sutherland
- Sutherland's only tar road
- Sutherland's Police Station and Magistrate's Court
- Gravel side roads in Sutherland only two blocks to the open veld
- Beautiful NG Church in Sutherland
- Peek inside a typical lounge in a Karoo hotel... only tyhe TV is new
- Perlman House Restaurant and Pub where we had supper in Sutherland... bar has young people in it
- Wonderful Springbok Potjie (R80 or US$10) and Chantel's Pizza at Perlman House Restaurant in Sutherland... both large portions
- Night view of Perlman House Restaurant and Pub with full moon peaking over the roof and the local pub goers vehicles outside
- Night shot of the church at Sutherland