16/01/2024
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Even though a picture can speak a thousand words let me add a couple hundred of my own!!
Some visitors call us a one horse town and I understand why that phrase is used.
In a past lifetime I lived in a SA city,
so let me as the one horse town resident talk about my opinion of a place i used to call home.
Let me label it a gangsters paradise, air thick with the fumes of 300 000 cars and neighbour's so self absorbed in their material world they don't even know your name.
I know that's what many love or are simply stuck in, but hey I love my one horse town.
In my previous city home amongst 600 000 people I thought I had enough friends but never realised that friends come and go.
Here the community of less than 1000 are friends that become family and they stick together through all adversities.
We have unspoilt nature and crystal clear water on our doorstep with one of the cleanest dams in the country.
Seven village restaurants, five in the surrounding area.
More than 60 accommodation establishments, numerous wedding venues, organic cheese and veggie farm, craft brewery, essential oils, canopy tour, historical sites, SA's largest private botanical garden, artists, writers, musicians, seasonal blueberry picking, weekly park run, local doctor and physio, library, village hall socials, chess club, fly fishing venues, mountain bike and hiking routes.
We are a destination where the journey never ends!
I've lived here for 13 years and there's still so much I haven't done, places I've not yet explored.
Tell me I can never leave the area and I will say no problem I'm in a paradise, I most certainly could never say that about the place I used to live in.
On occasion we do have a horse, pig or donkey that wanders into town, add to that some hippos, leopard, mongoose, porcupine, bushpig, duiker, owls, eagles and not to forget the cutest dwarf chameleons.
Surrounded by a nature reserve and at the foothills of Limpopo’s highest summit within the pristine Wolkberg Wilderness area on one side and the second largest indigenous rain forest in SA on the other, all I can say is I made the best decision to move here and I am truly blessed.
