Kuboes and one of the most famous Succulent spots on earth, the hill at Wondergat, home to
a small forest of Aloe pillasii and more wonders

The small town of Kuboes

Our delightful small Chalets

A hillside full of A. ramosissima

A look from the top

One Larryleachia only

Local

In the fog on our way out

This aloe is going to live no matter what!

Aloes in bloom

Magnificent

This is the local Dassie Rat

You really can't call the road from HellsKloof Gate a road. At best a track, but when you come up over the rise and see
the Aloe pearsonii, you forget everything else. What a day, our first in the Park itself.

Aloes as far as you can see.

Gethyllis grandiflora

Crassula macowaniana

Ornithigalum

Stapelia hirsuta ssp. gariepensis

Crassula nudicaulis

Jackal Buzzard

Tromotriche pedunculata ssp. longipes

Crassula subacaulis

Conophytrum loeschianum

Conophytum bilobum

Anacampseros filamentosa

Day two. We passed a few Halfmens, that's Pachypodium namaquanum at dusk yesterday, so we headed back to
Halfmens Pass and what wonder. These fantastic succulents all over the hills up to 2.5 meters tall and more. Every one in full flower.
Out to DeHoop on the Orange River. What an idillic camping sight, other than the baboons, of course.

Magnificent Halfmens

What incredible plants

Crassula deceptor

Hoodia alstonii with Tylecodon paniculatus

Commiphora capensis

Little crassulas all in a row

Adromischus alstonii

Crassula tomentosa

Tylecodon buchholzianus

Tylecodon reticulatus

Locals, hanging out near a campground

More local

Euphorbia viridiflorus

Microloma calycinum

The Gariep (Orange) River at DeHoop

Who knows? A mesemb

So, we're driving on the track and Jeni says: What color are Hoodia alstonii flowers?
Martin says, small, maybe yellow or red. Jeni says, I just saw one fully in bloom.
It took a few minutes, but we found it - What a beauty! er - stinky beauty

Avonia

Day 3, north to Potjiespram, another beautiful place to camp on the river. On the way, Jeni says, wow that looks like a good
place to look for plants. Look at all of that Quartz and Granite. This hill is in Martin's GPS as Jeni's Koppie.

Incredible landscapes - look at the black sediment line in the uplift - right hand picture

Cerraria pygmaea

Different tylecodon

Beauty from the top of Jeni's Koppie

Aloe gariepensis

Orbea namaquensis

Cute cotyledon

Monsonia (Sarcocaulon ) crassicaule

Here a crassula, there a conophytum

How do they survive?

Love those commipheras

Another local

This is a long story

Out to Springbok, but on the way, we visited Lichen Hill (where baby toes grow) and the Holgat River where lots of unusual stuff was found. We tried to go in to Alexander Bay only to be told that we could not drive and would be subject to body search on the way out.
Those South Africans are very protective of their diamonds.

Lichen Hill - I wonder why it's called that?

Lithops herreri

Beautiful small pelargonium

Monsonia in the Lichen

Fenestraria rhopalophylla - Baby Toes - What a find, how exciting for us - We grow hundreds of these

Euphorbia ramiglans

Local

Crassula nudicaulis ssp. herrei

No idea

Bulbine fruitescens

Conophytum

No idea

Cute little pelargonium

Vyftienmyl se Berg (Fifteen Mile Mountain), because it is 15 miles from Port Nolluth. At the southern edge of the recognized "Richtersveld", filled with succulents. What a treat!

What an imposing place

Cotyledon orbiuculata

Tylecodon buchholzianus

Crassula with 3 baby mitrophyllums

Haworthia arachnoides

Crassula pseudohemispherica

Tylecodon

Gasteria in the rocks, mostly upside down

Avonia

Conophytum bilobum

Crassula (?)

More crassula (?)

Crassula

Conophytum bilobum

Anacampseros filamentosa

Quaqua

What a Wonderland! Those who know this place are filled with awe. I've read books about it and nearly every photographer
turns poet after visiting this place. So dry, so barren, so filled with wonder

At dawn on the Orange River