Five Assegaais hike

Posted on December 10, 2011 by peter

Four of us recently hiked near Machadodorp on the Five Assegaais trail, an overnight hike with some great scenery

Out on the water

Posted on October 23, 2011 by peter

Mark, Cheralynne, Jenna and Peter borrowed Third Impala’s gig and did some rowing at Homestead. It’s been a while since any of us have rowed but we soon got going smoothly, visiting the moored raft and First Benoni’s jetty

Thank you from Kontiki Chairman’s Challenge

Posted on September 19, 2011 by peter

The following was received from the Kontiki organisers:

Dear Kevin,

Just a short note to thank you and the Phoenix Rovers that helped us on Saturday with the scoring at Chairman’s challenge. Your assistance contributed to make the event the success it was. Thank you.

I would appreciate it if you could pass our thanks onto the other rovers as I don’t have any contact details for them.

The challenge was won by Rivertrail River Raiders with The Green Team coming second and Horison’s Hero’s taking third spot.

YiS

Darren

Kon Tiki Chief Judge

Kopanong Raptor Centre tour

Posted on September 11, 2011 by peter

BP Sunday 2009

Posted on February 23, 2009 by <ADMINNICENAME>

WOW, what a great turnout it was this Sunday. here follows a few photo’s

Scouts get a taste of the army life

Posted on September 4, 2008 by <ADMINNICENAME>

It was the morning of the 30th of August. At 4:50 a whistle blew. I have never seen scouts get up so early so fast ever before. Apparently the small bit of training they had the night before helped. I think it was all the sand bags they moved that encouraged them to get up so early.

Order did eventually arrive after everyone had a good breakfast and a short refresher was under way. Take note of the guys doing push ups.

When the Samels(I think thats how its spelled) were “ready” everyone was packed up and on the way.
Everyone had a quick tour of the shooting range and another safety talk.
It was then time to gear up and start shooting.

When we got back to base, everyone was informed that they would be cleaning the rifles. After a quick demonstration on how it was done everyone got to it.

We then had a Demo/Talk with plenty examples of different explosives. Now we know what not to touch. We then had a demo with some practice Grenades and Flares.

Overall the weekend was a great success and enjoyed by all.

Regards
Marc

Magoebaskloof Hike 2008: One at a time half way to a pinch.

Posted on July 14, 2008 by <ADMINNICENAME>

Magoebaskloof hike 11-13 July 2008

What a great hike, if you weren’t there you missed out plenty. Yes the weather sucked, but it did make for some moody photo’s. It was also a really difficult hike, and I think everyone went home with war wounds, although some way worse than others. The new hiking boots produced no blisters and the old ones did, very strange indeed. Here you will find a collection of photo’s and descriptions they are not really in order.

This the the Group from phoenix that went from the left we have Ian, Cherilyn, Marc, Gail, Mark, This was of course before we started, which btw was on the wrong path we then had to double back.

We had plenty treacherous terrain along the way here are some pics of that(one at a time please).

This is everyone except Ian(who was taking the pic) leaving the hut on day two.

This is the hut we got to on day two.

Right next to the hut was an awsome waterfall and rock pool which you can swim in, but considering the water is freeeeezing cold and it had been raining you had to be crazy to go for a swim. we just so happend to have a few crazy people with us who decided it was just too good an opportunity to miss so Ian and Mark did go for a swim although I think Ian was the only one to get all wet.

Yes we ate here is lunch.

Ok picture this, I’m waiting for the water to boil when I hear a scream from the room next door on investigation I find that a small flower has been mistaken for a spider, now when I say small I mean the size of fingernail small. This ended up being a big joke, So the next morning when there is a scream of spider coming from the shower its not like anyone took notice, probably another flower we thinks, How wrong were we. This was the huge spider which greeted us. You can get a sense of scale if you notice thats nottie pine so the spider must have been the size of the palm on your hand.