I’ve just received the good news that the summer rains have started in Barkley East and Rhodes, one of South Africa’s most beautiful trout fishing destinations.
A few years ago I was taken by Gavin Schneider to see the changes he had made to Welgemoed (rough translation from Afrikaans – well-being) a farmhouse he had purchased on the banks of the Bokspruit stream in Rhodes.
To say that the restoration is lavish is putting it mildly. It’s five-bedroom, self-service house a few metres from the Bokspruit, a truly lovely trout stream for which I yearn.