fishwater flats

This is from local historian extraordinaire, Margaret Harradine's talk at the Zwartkops Conservancy AGM. Even today, when the name of the river is officially spelt with an "S", there must be many people who still think of it with a "Z"; somehow the old spelling is just more interesting! It is certainly a very old name. In 1752 the Governor of the Cape, Rijk Tulbagh, ordered the first expedition to this far-flung area, under Ensign Beutler. On cartographer Wentzel's resulting map the river is … [Read more...] about The land at the mouth of the Swartkops River: Fishwater Flats, Amsterdam Hoek and the Outspan