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Text and production Marian van Wyk | Photographs Greg Cox
"Bzzz-bzzz-bzzz,” goes my phone as photographer Greg and I are about to lose reception on 70km of very wet dirt road outside Beaufort West. We’re en route to Caren and Dave Mills’s remote Karoo game farm, and that WhatsApp alert arrives just in time: “Just before De Jagers Pass, there are two sloots under water; the first one you need to go through on the right-hand side of the road, and the second on the left.”
It comes as no surprise that the couple can drive this unforgiving road with their eyes closed. Whenever they get a chance, they escape to the farm where they recently renovated their cottage, which must be at least a century old.
