Bonniedale Guest Farm ride in the Outeniqua mountains past the Attaqueskloof Pass
Автор: Gary de Menezes
Загружено: 2025-05-03
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Bonniedale is a 1650ha Fynbos farm, situated in the Attaquaskloof in the Outeniqua Mountains between Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn, surrounded by the Attaquaskloof Nature Reserve.
The Attaquas pass was the ‘N1’ for ox wagons traveling north and east and was used by thousands of ox wagons from 1689 until 1869 when the nearby Robinson Pass was completed. The first ox wagons to use this route was an expedition of 21 men and two ox wagons sent out by Simon van der Stel, under the leadership of Ensign Isaac Schrijwer In January 1689. Gouriqua Khoi-Khoi pointed out the old elephant route to them. It took Schrijwer seven days to cross over the Attaquas Mountains from the farm Haelkraal on the southern side to the Moeras River on the northern side.
The establishment of George in the early 19th century, the Cradock (1812) and Montagu (1847) passes, brought about the beginning of the end of the Attaquas pass. But, finally the Ruiterbosch pass (1869) now known as Robinson Pass, provided a new and shorter route between Oudtshoorn and Mossel Bay, and this finally ended the 180-year reign of what must be one of the most attractive passes over either the Langeberg or Outeniqua Mountains.
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