South Africans ... Snow in KZN Midlands!
This will be of interest to South Africans from KZN. It only snows
in some of these areas evey 30 years (from what I have been
told) and makes these particular pics almost historical .. Sorry to
bore all you rotorheaders flying and living in snow bound areas ...
you can ignore these if you like ...
The morning after the 'historic' snowfall an aerial photographer
friend asked me to take him up in a Robbie to take pics of the
snow ...
We landed at Rawdon's hotel soon after taking off from Howick
(3400') with near full fuel, heavy pax, lighter me, and photog
equipment ...
He ran out of film sooner than planned and we had to land
with closer to AUW (much higher than our take off point) that I
enjoyed, not having burned off as much fuel as I hoped. Tricky ...
I took off on my own from there and he walked to an open field
for the next take off ... no worries ...
Some great frozen white scenery in areas usually only green, green, green ...
Four quick pics ...
Rawdon's Hotel near Nottingham Road ... for those who know it,
you don't often see it looking like this ... !
We were met by Basil Maine of Jim Green Footware in
matching-colour 4wheeler ... nice touch ... Where were the
Reindeer ... ?
Landed near Kamberg mountain to have some coffee and change
films again ... what a beautiful place ... silent and expansive ...
that's photographer Chris Moore sorting out coffee and sandwiches ...
KZN Wildlife's Giants Castle camp in the valley just below the
freezing level - a unique perspective ... flying at about 7800' amsl
here ... pretty cold with the door off ...!
Blue Skies!
