Will & Dre

You know how they say bad things always happens in 3′s, it’s TRUE. After 200ml of rain the past week it couldn’t possibly rain anymore and ruin our trip toe Klipdrift dam, could it? The weather forcast said some more rain was to be expected Saturday and Sunday but what do they know in any case?? They have a 50% change of being right, There’s rain or there’s no rain! We packed our bags and left Johannesburg at around 19:30pm Friday night, we would sleep over at family living in Potchefstroom. 62km into our drive I realized we left the bottle Klipdrift at home (AHA, bad thing number one just happened!), I asked my wife to phone Willem, but he was also half way to Potch by now, so drinking Klippies and Coke at Klipdrift dam will have to wait until our next trip (and so would my facebook status).

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Ok so let’s continue with the report! Arriving in Potch my uncle informed us that we should rather fish the private side of the dam as we would be wasting our time on the other banks available. Always the wise men we are we took the advise provided by the local (AKA, my uncle) and agreed to make use of his contacts, he fished the area alot and it would have been stupid to close this ‘book of knowledge’!! With interest we continued to discuss strategies and tactics until we realized that it’s 1:00am and that we had only 4 hours left for sleeping!

5:00am: What a beautiful day, everything is ready and packed and the sun is shining (I knew Wheather SA wouldn’t be spot on!). Ready and excited to try out this new dam we start the 10 to 15 minute drive. BLINK,BLINK,BLINK 6 minutes into the drive the petrol light comes on, this doesn’t bother me to much as we should still have enough petrol to get back to town. So with ‘bad thing two’ avoided for the moment we arrive at a closed gate, surely this is the norm. But it’s not, there is already one car waiting and a bunch of others behind us. Two hours later we had to accept that bad thing two’ just happened!!

Klipdrift dam - Closed gate

Klipdrift dam - Waiting

We decided it’s best not to waste our time on the other sides and decided to try Boskop dam instead. So a bit dissapointed we turned around and headed back to town. As they say, if it doesn’t rain it pours and this is exactly what happened as we arrived in town!!! (Bad thing three just happened!). Looking at the skies and feeling a sharp pain in my chest we filled Gina up with petrol and drove back home.

All hope wasn’t lost though and we kept ourselves busy building rigs. Boskop dam was just around the corner and as soon as the rain stopped we would be in the car and on our way! (Guess Wheather SA was right after all).

Willem keeping himself busy

So the Klipdrift trip didn’t work out 100% as was expected but we did eventually managed to pay a visit to Boskop dam. But this is a whole new adventure on it’s own and I will tell you all about it in our next report, so keep an eye out!!!!!!