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We had an excuse or two to get back up to the area of the province that we probably most enjoy -- the Drakensberg mountains -- because we wanted to visit our missionary friends from Lesotho, the Ferguson-Pezzano clan, who were in the area for a school holiday trip. We had originally planned this link-up to bring them some refurbished sewing machines that are destined for CHAL, where Lois works, having been obtained from the Netherlands via Sinikithemba at McCord Hospital, in a complicated but inspired bit of networking by Ruthann. But the CHAL people are due down to Durban from Lesotho in a bit, so it was decided to wait, as they're to handle the transport directly -- which will be a relief, as the machines are older, very solid models that take up quite a bit of room. Not what we'd expected when we signed on for the volunteer missionary role, but hey...
Anyway, the opportunity to see PZ and Lois and the girls again, on neutral ground as it were, also allowed for visits to a new nature reserve (and Anglo-Boer War battlefield site) at Spioenkop in the western part of the province, and a chance to visit the Royal Natal National Park again. We had a good couple of days, with good birding, a little bit of hiking, and the chance to see our first San ['Bushmen'] rock paintings.
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