Road Trip. Goudini Spa

Our first stop on the long way home was Goudini Spa. The name means The Place of the Bitter Honey.

In 1719 François du Toit obtained a license to  pasture his cattle in the area “Laauw Watersfontein”. His son, Pieter, stayed in the area to look after the cattle for six months and discovered the hot spring, naturally bubbling out of the ground. After the Boland earthquake of 1969 the spring dried up. Several bore holes were sunk and two provide the resort with hot water for the pools and a third provides cold drinking water.

We’ve been here once before when a Gideon's annual convention was held here but that was a very long time ago.

We relaxed in the warm pools,…..

…..enjoyed the beautiful mountain scenery,….

admired the beautiful springbuck in an enclosure near us…

and ate lots of ice cream. This morning, relaxed and refreshed, we pulled up pegs again and made our way to Laingsburg where we are now settled.