Beauvallon Today!

[georg ruf jr.]

Beauvallon michael fishing on the Oranje

We caught a lot of yellow fish that day. Tasted realy muddy.

[georg ruf jr.]

Lynete Bezuidenhout top left. Also on the site. Three girls nex to her look familiar. Then there's Vanessa McBride farther to the right.
Bottom row Dirk Swanapoel. Been mentioned on the site before. Boy to his left looks familiar.
Yes Dunja. Looks like a real Wrobka. lol
Is that Margeret ry in the second row from back, second girl from right?

[barb (Fry)]

No I don't see Margaret Fry but I'm sue Beverly Johnson is 4th from rt back row
Many faces are familiar but from Afr class, can't put names to faces
Brink sister a possibility

[Patricia Lotte]

Charmain and Dunja - don't hesitate to go to Oranjemund. If you don't, you'll regret that more than seeing the chnages that have taken place. As I've said before on this site, I went back in 2004, after 19 years, and yes, things had changed, but the feeling of being 'back home' was stronger than anything else and the memories that came rushing back were just so amazing that I completely overlooked the rest. I enjoyed every minute that I spent back there. My only regret was not being able to stay more than one day ... oh and not letting Mike know that I was there ...

[Bertie Horak]

I agree - one might be disappointed when things look worse/different/ or even run down, but I'm sure by seeing even an old fence, which you might have forgotten about, might bring back good memories of what happened there and you might otherwise have forgotten about completely if your memory wasn't jolted back by the vision.  Mooi gestel, Dalene.

@ Dunja - No, I think Andreas was in the English classes, me in the Afrikaans class.  We only had music and choir together.

Choir photo - other names - Front row - William Brindle, Dirk Swanepoel, ? (English class), Ben Wiese, Kobus Wiese, ?.
In second row to my left is Johannes Esterhuizen (Henda's brother), John Smith, Nico Muller.

@ Georg - I remember that too, Those yellow fish didn't taste nice, and had a LOT of bones!!!  What did you use for bait?  I used corn and dough with bit of curry powder.

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

I have that fishing day on an 8mm film, will see if i upload that

Anyone interested ????

Georg Sen.

[georg ruf jr.]

You know I am oldman. Go ahead.

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

You know I am oldman. Go ahead.

As far as i know you have that on DVD, but i will upolad it the next days

The problem is, most here can not view it with slow systems....

[georg ruf jr.]

It's not just a matter of having the chance of seeing the movie myself....

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

I am uploading now, the link will come in about 1 hr time

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

More names to the choir photo:

Back row  L - R:  Lynette Bezuidenhout, Delia Munn, Esther du Preez, ?, Andrit van Heerden, ? ,? ,? ,?, Aneen Brink, ?

2nd from back row L - R:  ?, Muller boy, Henda Esterhuizen, Mariaan du Preez, Edwina Baker, ? , Felix Nieuwoudt, ? , ? , Tanya Groenewaldt (Kannieworrie's daughter), Andreas Wrbka, ?

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Beauvallon old 8 mm film about 1977, Rufs taking some days break at the camping ground

http://uncutvideo.aol.de/videos/350bcc18885866f5c1a46a59ba819c72?index=0

Let me know if you could see that video

Tip: If it buffers to long, stop the video wit II, restart after a minute with >

[Bertie Horak]

Thanx Dalene, ek dink ons sal een-of-ander tyd almal hê.

Two more names - Back row, two places to the left of Andrit is Suzanne ? (surname I can't remember) - can you help Dalene?
2nd from the back, 2 places to the left of Mr Nieuwoudt - Melanie Wilson.

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Dis tye soos die dat ek besef ek's soms dommer as 'n buitetoilet se pienk grond vloer!  -  het nie nou die vaagste idee eers wat daai kind se van is nie....

Bertie, as ek reg onthou kon jy vreeslik mooi sing daai tyd  -  jy nie solo's ook gedoen nie? 

Mr. Nieuwoud used to get furious when we used to ask to leave earlier to go run those races we used to have on the duty road just behind 1st ave  -  past Jowells Garage & the petrol station. 

Wonder where I was when this photo was taken  -  always used to sing in the choir.

[Bertie Horak]

Dalene, ek het ook gewonder waar jy was, ek's seker jy was ook in die koor!
No, I never sang solo's - too shy!

Dalene can you still remember the words to the "voordrag" you did - I think it was called "Krulkop klonkie?"
Ai, lekker memories!

Went to see a show by Rocco de Villiers on Saturday.  Wow, what an excellent pianist.  The show was all about TV shows, since the beginning of TV in SA.  Very amuzing - how we would watch the test pattern, and talking balls of clay (red and blue) and then later watch the news being read by a rabbit (Haas Das se Nuuskas) - not much changed there!.  Brought back great memories.