Today we decided to have an “On a Roll” Honour Roll outing. A map of South Africa was given to the students and on pages 46 and 47 a circle indicating a 65km radius was drawn. The students were then given 5 minutes to decide where they would like to go within that radius. The five students consisting of Samantha Butcher, Karen and Clarise Gurure, Jean-Daniel Kretzen and Mackayla Grahame chose to do a sight seeing trip, and so we headed off to the BIG town of Ladismith. From Heidelberg we drove to Riversdale, through the Garcia Pass to Ladismith.
It was a perfect day for travel and very soon we arrived at our destination. We had lunch on the side of the road which was most enjoyable, and then we had something to drink at the local coffee shop. Outside the coffee shop, we saw this huge elephant sculpture which had been made by a very creative sculptor. He definitely is into “heavy metal”, much to Samantha’s delight.
The elephant has been constructed from all sorts of metal objects, ranging from camshafts, bicycle gears, spades, old balustrade rails, hedge clippers and steering wheels from tractors. Anyway, if you look carefully at the photo, you will find more than I can mention. From there we departed, much to Clarises disgust, as she was left behind, on purpose, under the instruction from her sister Karen. The look on Clarises face when she came out the coffee shop would have made a perfect picture for the lost and found column in the local newspaper.
From Ladismith, we then …. ( oh yes, we did pick Clarise up to carry on with the journey) went on to Barrydale to show Jean-Daniel what lustre on a rock looks like. It seems the trip got to Jean-Daniel a bit, as he demonstrated to us how a cow goes ….maaaaaaaa and a sheep goes ….. mooooooooooo. We all had a good laugh. Through the Tradouw Pass we came across a big troop of baboons which we tried to photograph. They are definitely not related to the Cape Point baboons, as these ones ran away when we stopped.
We arrived home on time, as all good students should to be picked up by the respective parents. Well done to the Senior class on their good performance for this term, and we look forward to next terms outing. Yihaaaah!!!!!
