We had the most amazing experience and I hope that you will enjoy this as much as we did.
Now what kind of bird statue is this that was placed at the front entrance of the beautiful old wine farm house.
Before I say a word further, please watch this video in order to see what I am talking about.
Yes, we read a story about the Runner Ducks on a wine farm here and we went to investigate, as we wanted to see it for ourselves.
As luck would have it, the farm has two great restaurants and by chance the manager of the one restaurant is an old friend of ours. So we instantly heard most of the story about the ducks and also a bit of the history of the farm.
Come and see what we saw.
This is the entrance to this historic wine estate and at the right you can see the security offices that monitors all entries and exists.
And there they were! They had a long walk and were stopped here to take a short rest on their way to work.
I cleanly forgot about my cup of coffee and excitedly grabbed the camera to show you.
Here is a paragraph from the farm's website.
Vergenoegd Löw is one of the most intact of the early Cape farms and a very important heritage site, national monument, part of the European Heritage Project and a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) partner. This estate - now 325 years old - tells the stories of the owners, their families, slaves, Khoi labourers and farm life over three centuries. It is a fascinating tale of a host of individual vrijburger and other farmers who farmed with grapes, wines, different kinds of livestock, crops and feed grains.
Look how cleverly the ducks gathered in the shade of the tree.
I can imagine in times past, that the slaves also rested in the shade of this tree, as you can see the slave bell hanging there in the background.
Now you can see why there was a statue of a runner duck in front of the old building.
But wait! Now they have to go and work.
The handlers roused the ducks and they filed obediently and perfectly in line on their way to work.
Gathered here to wait for the instructions so that they can know in which grape vineyard that they will work today.
The lead handler arrived, and he guided them to their place of work.
So that is the vineyard on the right that they will work in until they return later in the afternoon.
A prize winning wine, "Double Gold" was bottled to honor the work of the ducks.
We were also taken on a photo tour of the entire premises and although the interior of the buildings and in the other restaurant was fantastic, my main attention was focused on the dam on the property. There were so many wild birds on the dam and luckily for me, some that I have never seen before. So, my camera and I had a very happy time at that dam.
I will show you in some other posts the buildings and the views, and of course I will also show you, in some posts, the wild bird photos that I took at the dam.
But for now, I hope that you have enjoyed this happy adventure.
So have a look at this website to see one of the earliest wine farms in our area and put this one also on your list when you visit the Western Cape Province wine route in South Africa.
And That's All Friends.
Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX70HS Bridge camera.
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