{"id":57810,"date":"2018-07-19T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/rustig-mooi-en-alleen-tussen-die-kouga-berge-20180718-2\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T04:00:07","slug":"rustig-mooi-en-alleen-tussen-die-kouga-berge-20180718-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/rustig-mooi-en-alleen-tussen-die-kouga-berge-20180718-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rustig, mooi en alleen tussen die Kouga-berge"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEMOENE en stilte . . .<\/p>\n

As jou hart verlang na stilte en \u2019n wegkomkans van die dorp se lawaai, is DeMist Cottages in Patensie beslis \u2019n besoek werd.<\/p>\n

H\u00ed\u00e9r, tussen die koppies van die Kouga-berge en groen klowe van die Gamtoosvallei, kan jy weer die stilte in jou kop terugkry en die spanning uit jou skouers laat gly. Al wat jy veronderstel is om hier te doen, is rus met \u2019n hoofletter R . . . en lekker eet – veral aan die boepens le-moene wat kordaat aan die bome hang.<\/p>\n

\n DeMist Cottages<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

Op die Saterdagmiddag van ons kuier by DeMist Cottages, gele\u00eb op \u2019n werkende sitrusplaas, kom eienaar Jansie Both aangestap om te groet. Denim en T-hemp vol verfspatsels . . . hier word gewerk. Baie hard. Van boer tot huis uitverf.<\/p>\n

Agter haar verlig die middagson die Kouga-berge soos \u2019n blinkge- poetse juweel. Geen grys wolk met die belofte van broodnodige re\u00ebn is in sig nie. Die Patensie-boere bid elke Vrydagoggend vir re\u00ebn. <\/p>\n

Ek vra Jansie uit oor die plaas – daar is twee ten volle toegeruste kothuise en \u2019n \u201coff-the-grid\u201d kampeerterrein langs die rivier. \u2019n Nuutjie is die twee houthuise by die rivieroewer – ook \u201coff-the-grid\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jansie glimlag: \u201cOns kampeerterrein is veral gewild. Die volop vis mag dalk iets daarmee te doen h\u00ea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visstokke, aas en kundigheid word uitverhuur.<\/p>\n

Ons vra uit oor die groot rots in die helder-oranje badkamer by Old Bearie – ons selfsorg-kothuis vir die naweek. <\/p>\n

\u201cDit was omtrent \u2019n gespartel om die rots – wat ek opsluit moes h\u00ea – van die river tot binne die kothuis te kry,\u201d s\u00ea Jansie. \u201cNa ure se ge-stoot-en-trek kon ses van ons uiteindelik die rots tot binne in die badkamer kry. Hiervandaan gaan hy nie gou weer geskuif word nie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Die knus kothuis, wat gemaklik tot agt gaste kan huisves, het \u2019n asemrowende uitsig oor die le-moenboorde en \u2019n kaggel waar ons kan ontspan. Daar is \u2019n oopplan-kombuis en leefarea. Minder as twee meter van die kombuisdeur af is \u2019n groot lapa. <\/p>\n

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Prentjiemooi<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

En die unieke kunswerke wat die leiklip-vloer by die selfgemaakte-lapa versier?<\/p>\n

\u201cDit is die handewerk van my kunstenaar-suster Elbie Potgieter wat op \u2019n nabygele\u00eb plaas met groente boer.<\/p>\n

\u201cVan die skilderye in die kothuis is ook haar werk, en die \u2018prentjie\u2019 op die badkamervenster.\u201d <\/p>\n

Jansie vertel die \u201cheilige\u201d klippe kom van die Quagga Kerk-dak wat vyf jaar terug \u2019n nuwe baadjie gekry het.<\/p>\n

\u201cDie klippe het net daar gel\u00ea waar almal oor dit kon ry. Ons het dit stuk-stuk na die plaas aangery.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sy los ons alleen om te ontspan.<\/p>\n

\n Stap<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

Na \u2019n vinnige koppie koffie, gaan stap ons deur die boorde waar die lemoene boepens aan die rye en rye bome hang – die bestes reeds vir die nasionale en internasionale mark gepluk. <\/p>\n

Ons stap verby die knap kanaalstelsel, wat in 1967 deur ingeneurs en boere aangel\u00ea is om water uit die Kougadam te trek. dit is kurkdroog. Die stelsel word deur die Gamtoos Besproeiingsraad bestuur en elke jaar in Junie word die kanale vir instandhoudingswerk toegemaak – die \u201cdro\u00eb periode\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hier en daar l\u00ea ou plaas-implemente.<\/p>\n

Die uitsig oor die vallei is verruklik.<\/p>\n

Met elke tree voel jy hoe die vars lug en oop ruimtes die stadsgewoel uit jou gemoed wegtoor: hemel op Hankey.<\/p>\n

\n By die kothuis<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

Terug by die kothuis: vo\u00ebltjies wip parmantig op die klippe rond, en ons vuurtjie knetter vir tjoppies en braaibroodjies.<\/p>\n

Die indrukwekkende tafel by die lapa het \u2019n storie van sy eie.<\/p>\n

Jansie vertel: \u201cTafel gekoop, en wat nou? Nie een van die openinge is groot genoeg vir die tafel om deur te pas nie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maar \u2019n boer maak \u2019n plan: soek die grootste opening (want nie een is dieselfde grote nie), skroef \u2019n paar dele van die tafel af – probleem opgelos.<\/p>\n

Ons naweek word een van rus.<\/p>\n

Die Sondagoggend drink ons vir oulaas koffie voor ons kothuis . . . dan is dit tyd vir huiswaarts keer.<\/p>\n

DeMist Cottages gaan in jou hart kruip. Dit is \u2019n plek van klein plesiere: om die vuur sit, in die boorde stap, visvang . . . en ontspan. <\/p>\n

\n Meer inligting<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\n DeMist Cottages is op \u2019n werkende sitrusplaas in die Mistkraal-streek aan die buitewyke van Patensie gele\u00eb – net 30 minute se ry van Jeffreysbaai en \u2019n uur van Port Elizabeth af<\/span>. <\/p>\n

Besoekers kan \u00f2f in een van die twee ten volle toegeruste kothuise – Old Bearie en Old Pollie – oorslaap, \u00f2f hul tent of karavaan bring.<\/p>\n

Besoek www.patensie2baviaans.co.za of gaan loer by DeMist Cottages op Facebook vir meer inligting.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n Bespreking en navrae by 076 834 0760, of stuur \u2019n epos na info@patensie2baviaans.co.za. <\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Vind stilte en die rustigheid van die natuur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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