Cape Flowers

On a recent trip to the glorious Cape, we decided to take the scenic route home up the west coast along the N7 . On the road from Wellington to Hermon you pass these wonderful fields of gold next to the wheat. It is canola and is flowering during August.

This was a cold day with snow on the mountains, but clear blue sky - really peaceful.

Further on the N7 we spotted the first of the wild flowers, but it was rather disappointing. There was some rain in July and the flowers came out, but the subsequent wind put paid to them.

A few sensible seeds waited until August, but not the carpets of previous years.

A bit further up there were some daisies that were quite plentiiful, but only in pockets.

We stayed over in Kuruman and had some good steaks at a new B&B - can't remember the name just now, but it was almost opposite the old motel.

The best blanket of flowers was near Kuruman, but not that colourful.

We will have to do that again sometime, when the flowers are better. It is always a bit of pot luck with these flowers, but when they are good....