BACKROAD BOYS

While the first Change Your View trip saw our crew barrelling up the West Coast to the stark and barren folds of the Northern Cape in a little CX-3, this time round we tackled the lush and livestock-littered hills of the Eastern Cape in a new Mazda BT-50 4×4.

The objective was the same as Trip One: to explore the back country in a capable vehicle, and to have a city-based artist create a mural far from, and very different to, his usual urban stomping ground – and film it all.

BUNTU MEETS THE BT-50

Gqeberha (with its signs that all still read “Port Elizabeth”), famously tranquil and windless, surprised us with un characteristically furious gusts on our arrival from Cape Town. Kidding. PE was doing what PE does, and our drone pilot wore a worried expression as we disembarked. We had some drone filming scheduled for the following morning, and the outlook was less than promising.

First, we had to collect one of the stars of the show, a “concrete grey” 3.0L Individual Mazda