The chaos that goes with Festive Season has come and gone and we are all settled into the New Year with projects up and running! The end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 brought many changes and loads of exciting news with both the Trust and our Mothership, Nomad Tours.
In our Spring 2011 Newsletter that came out at the beginning of September we briefly mentioned that we had a “Man-on-a-Mission” who was going to conquer the coastline of SA from Kosi Bay to Cape Town to raise funds and awareness for the Trust and our beneficiaries. I am not going to go into too much detail of the story as it would take up at least 40 pages!! But his blog entries and images are still up and we encourage you to give it a read from start to finish. Before compiling this Newsletter I took the time to go through the entire blog again, from start to finish and it was RIVETING stuff!!
Read it for yourself: http://kozi2cape.wordpress.com/
Well in brief, Theo Boshoff, 3rd Year Law and 1st Year Conservation Student at Pretoria University in Gauteng SA, strapped on his Merrell running shoes - GENEROUSLY sponsored by Medicus Shoes –and began his epic journey on 24th November 2011!!! He had a blog that was being regularly updated either by himself or by supportive family and friends and it kept us all on the edge of our seats as he covered miles and miles on foot and later on his trusty mountain bike that has also seen its fair share of African travels. If you haven’t yet seen the album of pics sent along the way then go to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150329265660957.341387.23535705956&ty pe=3 Although constantly challenged by bad weather and being mugged in KZN and later being downed by glandular fever and having to head back to Joburg for some much deserved R&R, Theo was soon back on the road again!! He received an amazing amount of support from a variety of local newspapers along the way as well as a number of guest houses and B&B’s offering him a safe and DRY spot to rest his weary feet. After an EPIC 2 months on the road Theo, with his very dedicated Mom, Brenda, not far behind in the back-up vehicle, he came to a stop at Sea Point in Cape Town on 25 January 2012. OUR HERO!! We are just glad we got to join him on his final day, even though it meant changing tyres in the bustling town of Kuilsrivier, having a rather ‘intimate’ encounter with a truck, enduring the scorching heat of a Cape Summer as well as a real adventure in Cape Town City Centre Traffic!! We would like to express our sincerest and heartfelt gratitude to Theo, for choosing the Trust as the project he wanted to help get