landscape speaks to all of us in a language we are familiar with. and this is a changing thing.

my parents wandered around in these mountains. looking for bushman paintings. with ginger johnson, percy seef and heim rabinowitz.

they travelled in a mini. this took quite a bit longer than today.

one story that stayed with me is about their arrival on the farm traveller’s rest. “come inside, kom binne”, was how oom strauss welcomed them. after hearing about their planned walkabout, he said in his thick boer accent, “why do you want to go there? only the moon goes there.”