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Ah, thanks, Kate ♥️

Hi Jane, thanks for your wonderful comments! 😀 It looks like you've enjoyed all the different parts of the video 🙏 This is a special video to us, there were just so many beautiful things to show, we were spoilt for choice! We think you will also like the new two part series that will start this coming Sunday 😉 We really appreciate your support all the way from Australia 🇦🇺🙂

Hi Irma, sjoe dit is darem maar ‘n wonderlike kompliment! Baie dankie! Ons is so bly dat jy aangesluit het by BRC 😀. Hoop regtig jy sal ander videos ook geniet. Groete, Werner en Annelie 🙂

Hi Dean, thank you so much for your wonderful comments, and of course the good suggestions! We agree, we've only covered the tip of the iceberg, our biggest challenge on this trip was to decide what we will not go and see 🤣. Tsitsikamma, P;et and Robberg are all most definitely on the BRC todo list! Your interest in our channel is very much appreciated... 🙂

Hi Joanne, thanks so much for your comment. We agree, Zooridge is an absolute hidden gem. We knew almost nothing of Zooridge before the trip and we were blown away. We highly recommend a trip to Zooridge 😀

Hi Marc, your comments are very special! So glad that you loved the 4th episode 🙂 This Knysna trip had many highlights, but we also realise that there are still so much to see in the area... We'll have to go back for more... 😀 Fully agreed, Prince Albert is a beautiful little town next to the Swartberge, BRC is planning a trip to that area for late Dec this year... 😉 All the best!

@@backroadchronicles I would patiently await your trip to Prince Albert via Swartberg Col (with your dog, perhaps). Thanks to you two.

Hi Des, hope you are still doing well 🙂 Thanks for the compliments, but I think when it is so naturally beautiful, it becomes much simpler to make a good video 😀 I agree though, it was beautiful, and loved that you felt emotionally engaged (wow, what a compliment!), not that we like to be the cause of you crying of course! This was indeed a special series for us, and it is somewhat sad for it to come to an end... We have big plans though on our next few trips, so rest assured that more will be coming 🙂 Thanks for checking the numbers 😀 Indeed, we are pinching ourselves, did you see we are almost at 600 subscribers? Who would have thought that 10 months into the channel... 🫨 You will be happy to know that in the trip we've just returned from that both Mia and Frikkie joined us - that is a first for a BRC series... I again have about 7 hours of footage, but this time it will really just be two videos. We will have to skip the coming Sunday though as I need some time to prep the first cuts of the two videos, but you can be sure that the 1st episode will be posted the following Sunday... 😀 Thanks for being such a super fan, you will have no idea how much this is encouraging us. Kindest regards, Werner

Hi Kate and Mom I have so loved reading your beautiful comment and felt so happy when Werner mentioned you both! It truly was a superb episode and I was surprised to hear you also shed a few tears. I was equally surprised by my own tears! You clearly had a most amazing Knysna trip with a rich store of vivid memories to last a lifetime - I hope you get to visit again someday ❤

And Werner, I ditto Kate’s lovely comment regarding how lucky your children must feel having you as their Dad. I’m sure you had a wonderful day of being spoilt!

@@desh7120 Hi Des! Thank you so much for your kind comment. I agree with your sentiments that this episode had an emotional element to it which was somehow moving. I'm not sure if it was the pairing of the magnificent footage and well chosen music, or my own personal connection to Knysna, but there was a palpable emotion to this episode and we really enjoyed seeing it. I hope this finds you well, fellow super fan 😉 Warm regards from mom and I

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Hi Kate! Apologies for the very late reply, we were on a lovely BRC trip this weekend and only returned today. We had no cell phone reception where we stayed (maybe hinting at how special our location was 😉), so we're only catching up on the comments now... Wow, your comments are blowing us away, we had no idea that this episode will bring such emotions, but we are sure it is all very positive! 😀 We knew you and mom would love this particular episode, as we'ved left most of the sea footage for the last episode, we could not help thinking of you while strolling on the wonderful beach towards Gericke's Point 😀 It sounds like your trip to Knysna was fantastic, even with some Kayaking and visiting the wonderful Featherbed Nature Reserve! Annelie and myself have been to Featherbed (on our honeymoon, mind you) 27 years ago (when I was not nearly as grey 🤣) and we visited those caves as well 🙂 We were contemplating to go back there for this BRC trip, but in the end we ran out of time... Thanks do much for your loyal following, you (and mom) are truly our superfans and we so much appreciate your encouragement 🙂 All the best, Werner PS Thanks we got the mail 🙂 and Annelie responded a few minutes ago... this late response is also because BRC has been a bit busy over the last 2 days or more... 😀

Hi Penny, yes! Gericke's Point was a revelation to us, we did not realise it is so spectacular and there is lots to see in that walk from the parking area to the point itself... 🙂 You should go back to Knysna whenever possible... Your comments and loyal following is highly appreciated 😀 All the best!

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Wow, Priscilla! That is such a wonderful comment! Thanks so much! 😀

Thanks, Priscilla, we cannot agree more! 😀

Thanks M (wish I knew your name...), we really appreciate your wonderful comments and for following our channel. 🙂 Yes, maybe it is hard work, but we've discussed just today again that taking the footage and putting it in a video forces one to look and experience things quite differently. Nevertheless, this is not work, we love just love it! 😀. Apologies for the late reply, we've just returned from another wonderful BRC trip seeing that it is a long weekend in SA... All the best!

@@backroadchronicles Werner I sent you an email to your gmail account.

@@MMusikanth Thanks Michael! What a special surprise, I've responded in mail just now... 😀

Dankie, Leon! Dankie ook dat jy so getrou saamkyk 😀

Hi Jane, thanks for the comment! We're glad that you've 'joined' the fun 😀 All the best!

@@backroadchronicles Jane is an adventure junkie - she did her third Sky Dive to celebrate her 80th Birthday. She did her first on her 60th, second when she turned 70.

Hi Kate! Great to hear from you, it is really great that you are 'experiencing' our Knysna trip so well with us, especially this episode seeing that you've also done ziplining before 😀, and of course seeing that you were there recently yourself... BRC will need to plan a trip to Magaliesburg, I think 🤔 Yes, Noetzie was only 'seen' by Gogga 🤣, so we've only seen the same as you are seeing in video... But, yes, in many ways Noetzie is like a mystical place and I'm glad we've made the detour. That tiny house was fantastic! You really do not need anything more, it was perfect to us in every way. Nightjar Cabin also has the most wonderful host, called Leo. I also sent him a link to the video and he loves it... 😀 You are right, the Wild Oats Market is coming up in Ep4, together with a number of additional things that you and your mom will love 😉 Ep4 will be the last video to go live on Sunday morning... Thanks so much for your wonderful comments, your continued support is so very much appreciated. All the best, Werner

Thanks! We are not as tough as we look, luckily the video did not show how much our legs were shaking! 🫨

And…I really LOVE the way you both sit, comfortably chatting to us as though we are there with you - it really does make us feel part of the whole adventure 🙏🏻😉

Ah Des, thanks so much for your kind words I hope you are doing well, I am responding from my account but its Annelie here😂 I think the lovely guys that assisted at the zipline really helped me feeling less afaraid😅 I cannot agree more with you about nature being the place to find respite and soul food ❤ hope you will have a lovely week🌸🦋

So good to hear from you - I just quickly added an edit ✍️ The Zipline team were lovely - quietly professional. I could see how they’d put one at ease. I hope your week got off to a good start. It’s such a beautiful day 😊

Hi Des, so good to read your comments! Well, just between you and me, I was actually a bit more afraid about the ziplining than I made it look in the video, but it only took the first one to realise one does not need to fear it so much 🤣 But as you noted, I took care to make Annelie as comfortable as possible 😁 Didn't she just do great, and being the first to go even... 👏 Yes, Walter was amazing. Sometimes you just meet people that are naturally friendly and him speaking with so much passion about what he does, we really see this as one of the big highlights of the whole video 🙂 I really can not see us ever driving past Garden of Eden again without getting a coffee and a good chat with Walter... I really thought that you will like this video, and your comments exceeds my expectation! I'm busy working on Knysna Ep 4 now when I realised I've not yet responded to you 😀 You probably noted that Ep3 was the longest video we've ever posted, but we simply could not leave anything out - you should tell me if a particular video is too long... It seems that Ep4 will also be around the 40 min mark, we did a lot of things on that last day as well 😀 But, then again, I had to bring everything down from 7.5 hours total footage 🤣 We have booked our trip for the coming weekend, so Ep 4 needs to be finished and loaded at the latest by Friday evening... This weekend we are a full house, as Mia and Frikkie are coming along as well... 🙂 Lekker! All the best, Des, from Werner

@@desh7120 That is so very nice to hear, thanks!! 🙏

Hey, Walter! Thanks so much for commenting 😀🙏 Your coffee ☕ is the best! 😁 All the best, Werner

Hi Walter! If I am ever in that area, I will definitely support you 🙌🏻 Meantime, all the very best to you!

So great Walter wishing you every success with your business

Shout out to Walter 😃 So nice to see you post a comment here in the little BRC community 😊 Wish you all the best with your coffee shop, and great job Annelie and Werner for promoting our local entrepreneurs ❤

@@poetryinmotion23 Yes, Kate, Walter is the best! 😀☕🙏

Thanks for watching and your comments! We appreciate it very much! 😀

Thanks, Priscilla, for watching and commenting, we so very much appreciate it! 😀

Indeed! Thanks for commenting 😀

Thanks so much for your wonderful comments, this is the feedback we love to hear. 😀 The last of the 4 video episodes will be published this coming Sunday... Thanks so much for taking the time to watch our videos and for commenting 🙂

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Thanks, Leon! Indeed, this one should be on the bucket list for everybody 😀 Your comments are very much appreciated :-)

Hi Marc, thanks so much for your comments! You will have no idea how much this means to us, as we love it that you were touched by our videos for this trip. The Baviaanskloof is a special part of South Africa, and we are very pleased that we were able to 'take you along' on our trip 😀 All the best!

Thank you so much, Jane, for taking the time to view and comment on our video! It is of course great that you found it exciting and feeling that you are joining our immersive forest experience 😀 We love the fact that you are following us from so far away and that you are looking forward to what is coming next. We started with refining Ep3 last night, it will be a bit different to Ep2 😁 but we are sure you will like this ons as well. It will go live this coming Sunday... Wishing you a great week!

Thanks, Bill! 😀

Ah thanks Kate, so glad you enjoyed this one….we thought you might😅 hope you and your mom will have a lovely and cosy Sunday evening and a beautiful week❤

Hi Kate! So good to hear that you've enjoyed this one as well 😀 We could not help ourselves but to get immersed in the forest and to try and capture it all in this video... We can fully understand that this brings back fond memories to you from your own trip to Knysna 🙂 Hopefully you can return again soon... That elephant skeleton was a special experience. The footage did not quite do justice to how big it is, and it made the whole Knysna elephant link to the forest so very real... Very interesting to hear about your family connection to the forestry activities in the area, the one thing I took from the museum was how tough a life that must have been... We know you (and mom) are waiting for the sea footage, it will start a bit in the video next Sunday, but most of this is reserved for the last Knysna video the following Sunday 😉 Greetings to your mom as well on this Sunday evening, Werner

Thank you, Pearl, for your wonderful comments. We really appreciate it! 😀

Dankie, Leon, inderdaad, ons kon nie help om alles net rustiger te doen terwyl ons daar was nie, só pragtig! Dankie vir jou comment 🙂

Hi Marc, thanks só much for your wonderful comments. It is always great to hear how foreigners experience SA, so sharing your Knysna experiences are very much appreciated 😀 2006 is a long time ago, you and your wife should make a return trip 😉 Thanks very much for commenting on our video all the way from France! 🇫🇷🙏

Thanks, Priscilla! Yes, 'tranquil' that is the word that captures this video 😀 Thanks so very much for your comments!

Ah, thanks, Penny, your comments are so much appreciated! Yes, we did not see or heard any monkeys, but definitely heard the baboon(s) 🤣, but it was part of the experience! Wishing you a lovely Sunday evening! 😀

Hi, Des! Apologies for only responding now, we have been camping last night at Piket-bo-Berg, not for BRC footage, just for fun. And yes it was quite cold, but we were ready for this and managed quite well with 5 degrees outside in our rooftop tent, Mia in the car and all three dachshunds with us 🤣 It was a bit of an experiment to camp with all three the dogs, but it worked out just fine. But, for BRC trips we still think it will only be Frikkie, he is just such an easy dog... The other two keep us a bit too busy 🙂 Thanks, as always, for your wonderful comments. I love how you summarise the various parts of our video in the eloquent way only you can do 😀 We thought that you would like this video in particular, it was such a peaceful soul boosting experience, and capturing the atmosphere was the goal. Your confirmation that we have managed this is of course very pleasing. That museum was just the cherry on the cake, it is brilliant exhibition! I mentioned to Annelie that this video, although relatively lengthy at 28 min, is probably the least time we'ved covered in real time compared to any other video before, but it just felt right to only focus the attention on the heart of the forest for this video... 🙂 The next video will have a few more different activities, including some screaming (by both Annelie and myself!) 🤣 Wishing you a lovely Sunday evening, Werner PS I will definitely go and have a look at “Herd Elephant Orphanage South Africa”. Thanks for recommending! 😀 PPS Fully agree! We will definitely slip Mia out for some alternative educational experiences 🙂 At the moment prep for and actual exams make it a bit more difficult... BUT, both Mia and Frikkie are scheduled to join us on our next planned BRC trip on 15-17 Jun - everything is already booked. I think it will be the first time that both Mia and Frikkie together will go with on a trip... 🤔

How lovely that you had a super weekend away - I loved our visits to Piket-bo-Berg. One dog for each of you to control 😁 I’m so happy to hear both Mia and Frikkie will be in the next video series 🫶🏻 Please wish Mia all the very best for these exams. I am so pleased you focused on your forest experience and didn’t rush anything. It was exactly as you’d wished - a lovely, peaceful, soul boosting experience 🥰 Hope you have a jolly good week! Take care till next time.

Just me saying hi as well😅 thanks Des always love reading your comments❤

Thanks so much for the wonderful comment, we appreciate it só much! 😀🙏

Indeed, Groot Toren is magical! We are going back there in the beginning of Sep 🙂

Mooi! 😀 Dan moet julle volgende Sondag se video ook kyk 😉 Hoop alles is mooi daar

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Desiree l Loved your very affirming comments you have a wonderful gift of expressing your joy and happiness with experiences you receive are then return lovingly❤ the circle of love ❤️

Hi @MMusikanth, thanks so much for your wonderful comments! We love that you are watching our videos after being away for so long already, we hope that you come for visits though... 😀 I googled Shenandoah, wow, what a spectacle! I sometimes wonder whether one gets that kind of intense fall colouring anywhere in South Africa...? We will have to make a plan for BRC to come and drive the back roads of Shenandoah 🤣 We would love to see your video of the upcoming weekend trip... 😉

Hi Kate (and mom)! What a coincidence that you also were in Knysna very recently! I can just imagine how well you can then relate with our amazing experiences with this trip... 😀 Not to worry, there are still many places to be shown in and around Knysna in the next three videos of this series, we have not missed The Heads 😉. There will be footage focused in the beaches coming up..., we know you will love it 😀 These three extra videos will be published over the next three Sundays... The info shared of the forest and how shed off its branches is very interesting, we did not know that. Another fact that we find very interesting as well is that despite the trees growing so tightly together, its branches do not touch each other... We loved the forest experience, one can simply not help but to relax and be comforted by the majestic presence of the trees and forest sounds... 🙂 Thanks for the confirmation about the new camera! We were very pleased with how the footage turned out and we will definitely make this a regular feature of upcoming BRC trips...😁 We had to google ASMR 🤣, but what a huge compliment that our videos can have this effect! But the forest makes this inevitable, we would say... Kate, not sure if you know about this, but I've started a new channel about 2 months ago where I post shorter videos sometimes containing BRC trip footage that was not used before. If you want to look at this, please search for @wernersview on TH-cam. Would love to have your thoughts on this, although it is still very much a work in progress... There are two videos scheduled to be published this upcoming week still on the Werner's View channel... Wishing you and mom a great Sunday evening, Werner

Oh my word Kate you had me tearing up! Although I must admit I had to google ASMR🤗 what a lovely compliment indeed! thanks so much hope you and your mom wil have a lovely evening ❤

I agree completely with Kate’s ASMR comment ❤ And also loved learning about how the trees deliberately shed branches when required. How fascinating!

@@desh7120ah yes I actually forgot to comment on the trees letting go of old or dead branches I also found it fascinating, its a beautiful life lesson as well thanks Kate for sharing❤

@@backroadchronicles “”a beautiful life lesson” - how apt 🫶🏻☺️

Dear Jane, thanks so much for your comments and for making sure to watch our videos, we really appreciate it and it is very special to us to know that someone so very far away is checking in on us 😀 Yes, that camera on the roof certainly makes for very clear footage, we will definitely make it a regular feature in upcoming trips... The Knysna forest was amazing, but I'm sure there are many spectacular places in Australia as well... Maybe BRC should plan a trip to that continent as well 🤔🤣

Yes indeed Google opens up the world of National Parks ❤keep up your good work looking forward to Episode 2,3 and 4

Thanks, Simon, for your comment, we appreciate it very much! 😀

Thanks, Leon, your continued interest in our videos is highly appreciated 😀

The water bottle! 🤣 One cannot put this in a script, it just happens... We only realised how funny it was when we were editing the video... 😀 Des, it is great to hear that you will be rewatching this video again 🙂, but do you know that I've started another channel about 2 months ago? It is called Werner's View and you can find it at handle on youtube: @wernersview In this channel I post short videos on topics related to Back Road Chronicles and many times include footage that was not used in BRC before. I think you will like it. There will be two more videos published here in the coming week... Enjoy! 😉 All the best, Werner

Very excited to follow your new channel.

Thanks, Priscilla! We are certainly very pleased with the performance of the new camera and will make it a regular feature in trips to come 😀 You are correct! That silence was difficult to capture properly on camera, there was really NO sound to record 🤣 Wishing you a great evening!

Hi, thanks for the comment and the suggestion. Do you suggest I go for 60fps rate? I'm currently doing 30fps... 🙂

@@backroadchronicles yes, but keep in mind the higher your frame rate the quickly the sd card will fill. Give it a try driving around the block :) if its an issue, Id not lose sleep over it. But the quicker the framd rate the smoother the piccels get draw.