Today Iain and I left Cape Town to meet Fernando in Malmesbury at 8.30am. In typical Capetonian fashion, we got rained on for the first 350km before the skies cleared and we got an opportunity to settle into our long 700km ride to Felix Unite on the Namibian side of the Orange river where we spending the night.
Although there is the regular Sunday ride around the Cape that can be as much as 500km in any one day, I had forgotten what it means to be in the saddle for such long stretches. The Namaqualand countryside is as beautiful as I remember it and being late winter there are already sprouts of colour coming through.
Iain has done remarkably well today considering that he is a novice. Spirits are high as we settle into our first night of the ride.
Loving the road….
Namaqualand Splendour.
More Namaqualand.
The novice made the first leg!
Camp Felix Unite for the night.