For hardcore campers and off-roaders!

“You must please pay attention because there will be an exam tomorrow,” said Katot Meyer, who had just given my friend Raimund and I a list of conservation questions to think about.

Blessed with a disarming sense of humour, in the Herman Charles Bosman mould, Katot made a joke at every turn. We saw evidence of this in the many signs displayed discreetly around the various campsites he showed us before we selected the dam site below Rondekop. For instance, down at the Keurbooms River campsites he has altered an old ‘Pay and Display’ parking sign to read:“Afrikaners don’t pay for parking here, but Englishmen do”. But among all the ‘grappies’ are more serious conservation and recycling