I see the old farm at Hooggelegen has a web site and there is a Signal Gun Winery. I must investigate further and find if the young Garagiste de Wit has graduated to a wine master. I'd like to think so, they were such a great family to interview. IT seems unlikely that the conservation corridor has been established as I understand there is a great deal of house building going on in the ares but the slope of of Kanonkop is steep and just maybe! Next to the tractor museum there was a row of shops and in one was the office of a firm of pipe organ makers, at that time run by the third generation of organ makers the third generation of organ builders. Their organs are in Windhoek, Buenos Aires, Vienna and Kiev as well as spread along the Cape Coast all individually designed like pieces of architecture. From this you will appreciate the grapes were not the only rich pickings from Hooggelegen

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There it is, a tractor museum, a canon from the Napoleonic wars and a wine farm all on Hooggelegen. Just let me add this last item. When I was there Ryk de Wit was trying to organise a stipr of land some 12 miles long as a nature ramble and conservation area but was having difficulty convincing his neighbours that they should all participate. His idea was that it would not just be a ramble but a corridor along which small mammals could travel and maintain the health of the gene pool. As well as this and the views from the top of the mountain there are more species of flora in the Western Cape than in the whole of the UK.
On the top of the rocks in front of the trees, one of the dassies is sitting. Unfortunately, the image won't magnify to show it properly.

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