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Michele did a great job selecting out accommodations on the road, but even she was surprised when our hosts at the sheep farm invited us to view their private fossil exhibit. And to top it off, one of the brothers who owns the farm is a pale- ontologist of world renown who was visiting the farm from his post at a university in Johannesburg. We got our own pri- vate tour with him. To give you some idea of the age of these fossils, we tend to think of the dinosaur age as being ancient history...these predated the dinosaurs by millions of years!
Sheila Polk with our driver, host and guide Michele Colborne and Bruce, holding a claw fossil that is over 2,450 million years old.
The second evening on the road we were booked into an ostrich farm. Gorgeous accommodations, barbequed ostrich steaks for dinner and ostrich eggs for breakfast. Before leaving town we took time for a tour of a working ostrich farm.
We spent four glorious days in Capetown and were joined there by more Australian Shepherd owners—Seona Geobbelaar,
Natasha Baxter, and Simone Clark. We toured Table Mountain, Cape Point, Seal Rock (sorry about the bouncing boat, Natasha!), and the Wine Country, which rivals the Napa- Sonoma regions of California for sheer magnitude and beauty.
Three weeks on the road is a long time to be away from home. I say however that this was a very difficult trip to end and to have to say goodbye to all of our new friends in the world of Australian Shepherds. Thanks so much for your hos- pitality, good cheer, generosity, and joy! This was truly the trip of a lifetime!
Seated: Seona, to the left Natasha, Michele in the rear, and Sheila on a beach in Capetown.
The view from our luncheon table in the wine region.
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