What are we like as grape eaters, are we fussy grape eaters?

 

Yeah, I think you are a bit too fussy.

 

What do we like? Why?

 

You like…In the UK, you like big berries, but green, you don't like yellow on it. So it’s normally a bit sour in our opinion. When in Europe, they can bear smaller berries; we have a bit more of yellow on the skin. And it’s a better taste, it’s sweeter. But yeah, the consumer is obviously always right.

 

Of course! Of course! Now we’re going to the National Park next. How we getting there?

We got a boat waiting for you at the bottom. And we gonna paddle across it and we could gander into the park.

 

Excellent! ***

 

Ok, crocodiles, hippos?

 

No crocodiles or hippos in here. Legend has it that there’s a big river snake in this part of the river. 

 

Oh, snakes, I do not do.

 

Well, if you leave the diamonds alone, it probably won’t be a problem for you.

 

Diamonds? What diamonds?

 

Well, this river is the…the river takes all the diamonds down to the Atlantic coast, which is very rich in diamonds.

 

So if I had any paddle in here, I might find some diamonds.

 

Well, this is the first time I resorted to canoeing on one of my walks. The bridges on this part of the Orange, like tourists, are few and far between. So with people like H* to assist, there’s an opportunity to fashion your own walk. My route now crosses the Orange and enters the Augrabies Falls National Park through the back door. Bizarrely for such a remote area, this was the location for South African’s very first conservation area.