The Gemsbok Graveyard!

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

     I have never heard about gemsbok graveyard, will see if my dad remembers

[Michael Alexander]

This was in the mid 70's.... i'll give the answer on MOnday....

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

So wasn't Richard right then?   

[Clint Ebstein]

Yo Mike I don`t remember the graveyard, where you drinking at that stage, it might explain alot

[Michael Alexander]

Nope.... tell you on Monday.....

[Alfred Boehme]

I know where it is and I'm not telling

Alfred

[georg ruf jr.]

Heyguys, common. I've been watching this topic for hours. To much suspence. I'm running out of cardio-pills!
TELL ME NOW!!

[Michael Alexander]

 :emot19:

[Alfred Boehme]

Lets keep them waiting a little longer  :36_2_35:

[Michael Alexander]

As a kid growing up in Oranjemund in the 70's , this area surrounded by the red circle had a lot more tree's . like 1st avenue had, they were thick and there was only 2 ways into the middle of this circle of tree's. In the centre was a huge open area, no grass, just little mounds of gravel, but scattered all over the place was a lot of dried white bones belonging to dead Gemsbok. At the time there must have been easily 40 skeletons.... and off cours the signature gemsbok horns.... as the years went by the horns were taken home by various people to mount above their bars and braai's... we as kids in the 70's referred to this circled of area as the The Gemsbok Graveyard.... adapted form the Tarzan Movie on circuit at the time, that had an Elephant Graveyard...... If you go there today, the tree's are all gone and the boned no longer there.....

[Rhona]

Just had a look at the map...............the seven sisters, OMG!!! Only the other day the seven sisters popped into my head and I was just about to add a post to the site to see if I had an overactive imagination or if they truley existed, nice one Mike...........thanks. Guess I just have a good memory.

[georg ruf jr.]

Hey. We used to "camp" there as kids. At least in the trees. We never bothered going further, so we never saw the graveyard.
But why are so many trees gone. I've seen this on google earth to.

[Michael Alexander]

They don't plant tree's here anymore, no more Parks and Gardens. One reason for cutting the tree's back in the 80's was that the tree jungle gave the diamond runners a place to hide from the chasing helicopter.....when you drive into town these days you can see straight through the tree line now.......
I know down at Hohenfels, Nature Conservation people wanted to gut all those massive tall bluegums down, because they are not indigenous to the area....

The other day in Spar, I brought in small pine tree's , 20 of them, the people bought them all within a week, so at least we know that there are a few tree's being planted in the gardens....

[georg ruf jr.]

  :emot78:

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

Hey Mike thats not the gemsbok graveyard,more like tha Bluebulls grave yard :emot19: