{"id":3634,"date":"2011-08-08T11:39:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/stunning-groendal\/"},"modified":"2011-08-08T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:39:54","slug":"stunning-groendal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/stunning-groendal\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Groendal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday we loaded up the Chinese Racing Pig (our Bull Terrier, Jenna) and the Wolf in Training (our German Shepard, Tessa) and headed for the Groendal area in the hope that we could get close to the dam and get some images after the bountiful rain. As Ginno Fabri says; \u201cThe dams are now 427% full, I think!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting to the dam was not to be, unfortunately, but we did get a chance to explore an incredibly beautiful part of Uitenhage and have a chat to one of the Groendal Reserve rangers who was most proud of his little section at the start of the Baviaans Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>The Swartkops River is certainly flowing strongly and the dogs had a great time playing in the river just downstream of the first crossover point. As per normal the Longhair and I took more photographs than drops of water in the dams and would like to share the images below with you:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/8dca8_Tessa_Groendal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6961\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/8dca8_Tessa_Groendal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swartkops River, Bountiful water and the Wolf in Disguise, Tessa<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/8dca8_Kruisrivier_Groendal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6962\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/8dca8_Kruisrivier_Groendal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pond has developed in front of the last house on the LHS of the Kruisrivier Road to Groendal<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start WP Socializer - 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