Wit River – An Ultra Low Flow Scouting Hike

The Wit (or Witte) River is one of rivers a lot of South Africans have heard about. Held up as one of THE rivers in our diverse country and regarded as a world class run even by world standards. I had hiked along the upper stretch once with my sister a few years back and had seen the river from the road high above but had seen very little of it and only what the word on the street was. After my solo hiking mission along a dry Dwars River, I decided that some company would be in order to avoid hitch hiking back as an out and return trip would be impossible and so Rowan Walpole was called upon. He was as eager as me to check it out and so we did exactly that.

Dwars River – An Ultra Low Flow Scouting Mission

I had heard a lot of things about the Dwars but had never seen it myself. There are almost no photos of this river anywhere on the net except for one site which belongs to a professional photographer. As I had just moved to Cape Town I thought I would scout this river and see what all the fuss was about.