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The Journey continues - Part 9

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Driving through the little towns of Keimoes and Kakamas, we arrived in Augrabies. Until now we were quite lucky with paying South African Rates, but I made a mistake this time and Katja had to pay the International one - OUCH! The chalets were not that full, neither was the camping site. We did find a laundry and did some washing - the clothes dried in no time in the 46 Degree heat. When we arrived we went to the view points, but unfortunately my camera's battery was empty, so most pictures are from Katja. The Oranje was very low and only one waterfall was visible. There are some incredible pictures of the floods from the early eighties, 2008 and 2010 or 2011 at reception, so my advice would be to go just around the rainy season, which is March. We had quite a few of these guys haning around on the look-out points. I really wanted to see a Fish Eagle up close, but they were far away and you could only hear the high notes of the call. We had done ou