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Namaqualand flowers are blooming already!

16 August 2006 Amazingly enough the famous spring flowers of Namaqualand have already started blooming and we are still in the middle of winter!

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After the wonderful rainfall this winter the veld has come alive, with some species making showings for the first time in many a season. The fields are looking the best they have for many, many years. Water is oozing out of the mountains with fountains flowing at full strength again and the whole countryside is lush and green. Many of the fields already have acres and of wild flowers especially in the Namaqua National Park and Goegap Nature Reserve.

Namaqualanders are confident that the flower season of 2006 will equal the very best they have ever had. It is anticipated that the best time of year will be towards the end of July and last until the end of August. Hopefully more rain will fall which will extend the wondrous carpet of colour until September 2006, but this cannot be guaranteed. Remember that no two visits to this magical land are ever the same (especially in springtime) and it becomes exciting to hunt for the ever-new flower spectacles in different places on each successive visit, even in the same season.

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Flower Report from Emmerentia De Kock, Namaqua National Park:

I have been on the N7 from Springbok to Cape Town for the past two days. We now have a spectacular N7Flower Route, at least between Van Rhijnsdorp and Springbok. I have never seen the Knersvlakte as it looks now; as well as the road between Garies and Bitterfontein.

For spectacular flower displays I would advise:
Springbok (town), Brandrivier (area), Buffelsrivier (area), Arakoop, Kamieskroon (town), Skilpad section and riverbeds within Namaqua National Park, Grootvlei, the road between Garies and Bitterfontein and Knersvlakte.

Of course there are flowers everywhere, even Groenrivier is flowering. Visit this area as soon as possible.

Rainfall for Namaqua National Park the past week-end: 57 mm, Grootvlei 60 mm, Soebatsfontein area 40 mm.

For more information, read the Namaqualand Flower Report or go to http://south-north.co.za/flowers/

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