S1 - Ep 228 - Kleinzee - A Small Village on the West Coast of the Northern Cape! 

A lovely little town that has survived De Beers stopping mining there. An interesting fact I just read on Google last night is that both Koingnaas and Kleinzee are the only two towns in South Africa that are exempt from load shedding something to do with if they were put off it would cause a much bigger problem for the rest of the country. They are still trying to sort out the problem but so far have not been successful. Lucky towns. I just love that quiet life lovely!!!!! Thank you for this restful episode.

A cousin of mine worked at the post office those years. Thanks for this amazing video!!!

Love the ostriches! so loslyf flerries! I just have one gripe! For you Curtis, I have a face to the voice, but for you, Sonia, I have none. Please let me see you, just a foto will do if you dont want to perform for the camera! Sseblief! I am a people person. Love the campsite, would love to camp there. I think Kleinzee with a z is closer to the original Nederlands. Thanks for showing us another unique and interesting place

How surreal to see this town again…I lived here for several years in the late 80’s, we left when I was all but 7 (dad worked for De Beers) - but the memories of Kleinzee are sooo vivid, wow. Thanks for the vid x

We are now permanent campers with our caravan and enjoy your comments on diveret places to visit in South Africa, specially those with decent campsites

Some of my school mates lived in hostels; guys from Koiingnaas, Noup, Kleinzee, MacDougall's Bay, Port & Alex. De Beers had a very long, aero style shiny aluminium bus that had brought them to Worcester, Paarl and Cape Town.

Lekker gekyk na die Kleinzee video. Pragtige strand / Beach 🏖 The weather must be awesome over there by the beach. 👍

Pragtige plekkie. Weereens, geseende Kersfees. En baie dankie vir al julle video's....

Welcome to the Northern Cape and thanks for sharing our beautiful province ♥️

Hi guys the video was a real Christmas cracker so many surprises golf club with green fairways ostriches crossing the road small parade of shops this is definitely a good place to invest encouraging to see youger people when you went to the rugby cricket club it made me smile I live 200ms on a gravel track from a cricket club they use same signs innings wickets etc thanks for another great video merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

Hi you two! Thank you for taking me along. Blue skies, hopping ostriches, flat earth. Wonderful! I am so proud of my fellow South Africans who kept on going after being dropped by the mining industry. That town is so neat and peaceful, I hope they are flooded with tourists and other anglers. See you next time and keep safe!

Beautiful memories

Wishing the producers and watchers a wonderful blessed Christman day.

Ok so you know I will be back. Promise for the last time. Kleinzee - was the last standing place for Nama Vent. Also some memories for me but Koingnaas is my strongest memory, so strong that when I looked at your video, I could feel and smell the place and feel the hot sand under my feet and the place I long for the most if Pretoria gets to much crowded and loud. The open spaces and clean air and the quiteness. Keinzee was more of a place for my sister and brother-in-law, Danie and Alta du Toit. Their sons were grew up in Kleinzee, Alta were a teacher for many, many years at the school and you remember the tareroad from Koiingnaas, well Danie were the surveyor who marked out the road so that it could be built. They retired from De Beers and Kleinzee in 1982 if I am correct. Outside Kleinzee you will find the small town of Grootmis just as you go over the Buffels. There stayed a man with his daughter and son. Respectifly called Stingel, Blaar en Blommetjie. I think the father were Blommetjie but am not to sureSon and father drove the Landrovers that came and fech us schoolkids from Alexanderbaai during the long holidays (June an Dec) My dad picked me up at Kleinzee and then we still had to take the sandroad next to the sea to Koingnaas. On the way we plotted out the best sloepe to come and look for crayfish. Thank you for taking me back down memory road, from Hondeklipbaai to Kleinzee. I still also have memories of Michelsbaai, Groenriviersmond Spoegrivier, Tietiesbaai and further down towards Strandfontein and Vredendal. So n laaste tong in die kies storie:- tussen Hondeklipbaai en Mitchelsbaai was daar n konstertiena hek het absoluut geen lyndrade aan nie. Maar dit het altyd toe gestaan want iemand het n bord op die hek gesit met streng vermaning: " please close this gate or you will be prostituted" wel om nie die hek oop of toe te maak nie, het almal om die hek gery want n konsertina hek is niemand se maat. Safe travels and be safe

Merry Christmas to you (Chris and Sonia)🎄🎅🤶may you have a wonderful festive season be safe on the roads( oh I commented on your past few episodes ago) keep doing what you doing and showing us how wonderful our country is with its towns❤️❤️

Another beautiful small town. Wow! Thank you guys! 💯 I feel for yellow fat biltong now 😋

Watching over Christmas, so Merry Christmas to you and your wonderfull wife, thanks for the great travels and bless you guys.🇦🇺

A friend of mine, Johan Mostert grew up in Spektakelberg, between Kleinsee and Springbok. Was their "summer holiday" place at Kleinsee....now living in Springbok, myself never visited the little town

Hello, I am so glad to have found you both! I am a S African living abroad, and I just love listening to you both chatting in the lovely SA accents. I enjoyed your videos and will definitely watch more! Thank you both.

Used to be part of the hospital staff when De Beers ran the show.Obviously now a degraded town .Once a green oasis in the desert.De Beers management was excellent. Looks pretty neglected now.

Another nice little village on the West Coast. Everytime I see Kleinzee there are a few more shops etc .Glad to see Kleinzee is expanding. Pity the museum was closed when you were there, you would have loved it. We have spent quite a few Decembers at Houthoop Guest Farm which is about 15 km south of Kleinzee and normally then get our supplies at Kleinzee. And the Angling club is the place to be on New Years eve. Ok see you in the next one...I see you are going south again.. 🙂

Oh, the best flavour Creaming Soda. You have good taste! Thank you for Kleinsee- very informative and interesting.

Thank you really enjoy your ptoramme and content excellent stuff!

Finally you are no longer a bug, you are Curtis, so let me get rid of my problem. Since our first viewing at ep 223 you have a couple of addicts on your hands!. Wife (Annatjie) has insisted on a beginning at episode DOT!. The memorable travels are to be recorded(haven,t missed one yet) and I was given a terrabyte external harddrive for Xmas to make sure I got them all(I am going to miss my afternoon nap till done). As said am 89 yr old pensioner and loving it. Please Swartberg, have you been there again? If so which episode?. Somebody cant wait to get there again in the sunshine, Offered to take her, but she don't trust this old fossil. For you and yours: may the best you have had in 2022 be the worst you see in 2023.

Thank you very interesting and well done.

Great memories of Kleinzee if you go to Sterkspruit EC and ask people about Kleinzee believe you me people will tell you good stories about Kleinzee and De Beers because most of our people in Sterkspruit used to work in Kleinzee and what is amazing is that those who used to work there are still getting paid pension money and that money Stops when you die which is the great thing.

Damn, made me a little emotional. I grew up there, went to school there until I was 10, then we moved to NZ.

The roads in the small towns over South Africa is being neglected by the new government nothing matters to them instead of self interest.

As far as I can recall, Kleinsee gets its water from the Orange river via a pipeline to Springbok. Port Nolloth also receives its water with a pipeline from Springbok

I think that the steam engine contraption you saw was the very early years' train to and back from Nababeep. Heard stories years back of such a rail track that existed. Used to transport copper yielding ore from Nababeep to the sea. Then the smelter got build in Nababeep and the railtrack fell in disuse. If I am not under correction.

Yes, yes yes!!! Yellow fat on the biltong. You must come to Limpopo for that😂

We did a prayer walk throughout SA in 2018, and Kleinzee was one of the places we visited. a Friend of mine is a Mining Engineer, and the company he is walking for has started mining diamonds again not long ago. The SADF and police first had to remove the ZAMA, ZAMA miners, so there must be still a lot of diamonds in the sea.

Majestic birds - Ostrich 👍👌

Thanks!

That green thing I believe is a sterilizer . Fort Klapperkop has one that looks just like that . Was used to sterilize clothes after a breakout of some or other sickness

Good morning. Just waiting for loadshedding to begin and end. So I have been thinking about the row of garages in Koingnaas, Kleinzee and Alexbay. Those were the garages were the vehicles of the people that lived in those towns, back in the day when you had to be screened to enter or exite the town area, were kept safe. Your outside vehicle for traveling to Springbok, Cape Town or to family were stored there and once you were through the checkpoint(building enter one side,exit otherside) you used your inside old vehicle to get around where ever in town you wanted to go. Those days cars were left open, with their keys in the ignition and never got stolen.Now all those towns are open but the garages are the reminder of the days you got screened to see if you have diamonds on you. Nerveracking when you exit the town because you never knew when you would get the red buzzer to go through screening.

Stark but beautiful

Congratulations on reaching your 8000 subs 👏 milestone...Kleinsee looks like an awesome spot and you guys definitely know how to showcase a place. I actually like the new format, ie the voice over, I understand that this is due to "mic issues" , however it is great as sometimes we remember more in hindsight too. That caravan park with its amenities is of the best that I have seen...especially the privacy. There's nothing worse than camping on top of each other. At the angling club "there's not a soul about" or was it a sole 🤔 😄...did the mine install a desalination plant ? Or are there underground aquifers providing the town with its water. I recall that there even used to be an airservice to Kleinsee, I think more ad-hoc than scheduled though and in light twins not Boeings. Looking forward to tomorrow's episode 😀

I really enjoy these trips our beautiful country no need to emigrate to NZ

Mad drive from Springbok. 😂

Lekker! Reminds me of Henties Baai and that region of Namibia. I lived there for many years.

I've only just discovered your name - Chris! Nice to "meet you". Now, why can we not see a picture of your wife Sonia too? For your thousands of fans, like me, it would make us feel like we know you better - just a suggestion :)

We did a 10 day trip around the northern cape starting up at the border of Namibia along the orange river and worked our way along the border to Alexanderbay along the coast line down to the western cape in 2022 over March, at one one of our many stops we had lunch at the Kleinzee angling club which was busy with locals. I am surprised to see it so desolate. I wonder if they just had a day off, or is there something more to it?

Sorry for spelling mistake in my commemts..should be different places

A closer walk through view of the camping/caravan park would have been appreciated. Your driving view does not give much info. as an avid camper planning to go to Kleinsee myself this would have been appreciated

Is daar enige huise by die see?