{"id":6077,"date":"2026-03-06T08:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:09:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:11:29","slug":"rainmaking-in-cape-town-fr","status":"publish","type":"expeditions","link":"https:\/\/servcrmpro.online\/fr\/expeditions\/rainmaking-in-cape-town-fr\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainmaking au Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: large;\">3 Days in Cape Town<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">02 June 2004<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">An older and more experienced rainmaking colleague <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Peter von Maltitz is a distant relative of Eddie von Maltitz, the well known farmer from the Free State. (see previous Reports) The split in the family tree seems to be some 5 Generations ago though and the 2 could not be more different Personalities.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Peter von Maltitz has -apart from studies in agriculture, plant pathology, antroposophic farming and homeopathy- undergone the training as a <span>spiritual<\/span> healer (Sangoma) in the Xhosa tradition and practices under the name Zanemvula, which means \u00ab\u00a0He comes with the Rain\u00a0\u00bb I had somehow come across him on the <span>internet<\/span> looking for his relative Eddie and corresponded a bit some time ago, also touching Credo Mutwa whom Peter also happens to know and admire. Thus I luckily landed in his Email list.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">You can read more about Zanemvula and his work on his website <a title=\"Zanemvula Traditional Healing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zanemvula.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.zanemvula.co.za<\/a> . <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">So, a few days ago I received a notification that he would hold a rain calling ceremony on the Paarl Mountain near Cape Town. Spontaneously I decided to participate and bring a Cloudbuster for permanent deployment in the Cape.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Since I was somewhat late at the gathering point (I had terribly underestimated the distance from Cape Town, where I stayed, to Paarl) I had to climb up to the top alone.After a somewhat sweat drenched power hike with the 20kg Cloudbuster in my back pack, I got close to the top. The last few hundred meters I was guided to the right spot by the sound of African drums. Strange that I was soon to find nobody had actually brought drums. The sound, although clearly audible had only been in my head an yet lead me accurately to where I was to go. (No I&rsquo;m obviously writing my warrant interned in a mental institution)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I had somehow expected a huge crowd of more than 100 people from the whole country and was thus a bit <span>disappointed<\/span> at first when I found only a small group of people on the rounded rock.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Zanemvula was to remark later that the 11 that we actually were exactly the right number what we intended to ask for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040530_Zanemvula2.jpg\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Zanemvula stirring a greenish liquid in an iron pot with a forked twig.\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">The participants sat grouped in an approximated circle including Zanemvula who was busy stirring a greenish liquid in an iron pot with a forked twig.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Nobody said too much and so I got down to unpacking and assembling my cloud-buster under the curious glances of the other participants. I didn&rsquo;t want to impose myself too much and therefore placed it outside the circle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040530_Zanemvula1.jpg\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Peter Zanemvula\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Peter (Zanemvula) then asked all participants what rain meant for them. Mostly themes of fertility, relaxation or relief were mentioned. At first I didn&rsquo;t know what to say in order not to utter mere platitudes. But then I burst out something like:\u00a0\u00bbRain is the opposite of desert forming, <span>desiccation<\/span> and drought. since I&rsquo;ve made it my mission to restore natural rainfall everywhere in Africa, this was the most essential thing for me.\u00a0\u00bb For this reason I had brought that strange contraption, of which nobody had to be afraid as it was absolutely compatible with the endeavour of this group, I continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I will not try to relay the whole ceremony in all detail. I can only say that it was serene and beautiful. Of great simplicity and therefore real spirituality.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Peter manages to present the spiritual and the rational realm in total harmony, an ability that I have also noticed in Credo Mutwa.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">This of course in stark contrast to widely held prejudices about shamanism, animism and the like.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Some great cloud formations showed up, of the kind that we had already earlier identified as \u00ab\u00a0air spirits\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0sylphs\u00a0\u00bb or more precisely their physical manifestation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040530_vortex_over_paarl.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040530_sylphs_over_paarl4.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040530_sylphs_over_paarl3.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040530_sylphs_over_paarl2.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040530_sylphs_over_paarl1.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Originally I had planned to hand over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orgoniseafrica.com\/orgonite-cloud-buster-35mm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CB<\/a> to Zanemvula. Unfortunately it turned out that he only had a little flat in Cape Town. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">So I was happy when Alfriede and her daughter Kathie, who live not far from the place of the ceremony on a farm, volunteered to host the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orgoniseafrica.com\/orgonite-cloud-buster-35mm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CB<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I did a little extra round to orgonise the city of Paarl a bit and then turned up at theuir farm for a nice afternoon chat with coffee on the verandah with the two, joined by Alfriede&rsquo;s husband Neill.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">They had already assembled the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orgoniseafrica.com\/orgonite-cloud-buster-35mm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CB<\/a> and found a nice place for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040530_cpt_custodians.jpg\" height=\"375\" alt=\"An orgonite cloud buster in its new home\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">After sitting on the verandah for a little more we had a nice dinner together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I am sure that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orgoniseafrica.com\/orgonite-cloud-buster-35mm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CB<\/a> is in good hands with them. Neill a Farmer and Entrepreneur who stands firmly on the ground with both legs but maintains a sceptical open mindedness towards biological farming and spiritual and natural healing issues. A good basis for meaningful observations.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">At night I went back to Cape Town, not without leaving a few orgone gifts on my way through Stellenbosch, Khayelitsha and Mitchell&rsquo;s Plain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">The Lonesome Buster&#8230;. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">(Please intensely imagine Ennio Morricone&rsquo;s Soundtrack from \u00ab\u00a0Once Upon A Time In The West\u00a0\u00bb here) <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">The next day I spent busting the Cape Peninsula in the widest sense in my rented tin can, a Toyota Tazz. Sinne. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">This was mostly unspectacular legwork (On the accelerator and brakes mostly) except for 2 highlights. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">1. The Rhodes Memorial<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I&rsquo;ve had my sights set on the Arch-Illuminatus Cecil John Rhodes, destroyer of the traditional Africa and power wielding manipulator, for quite some time. (see earlier report from Zimbabwe)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">It is being said that only his body lies buried in the Matopos Hills* in Zimbabwe, but his heart is kept in the Rhodes Memorial at Groote Schur Estate, which had been his residence for a long time.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">*A place that had been holy to the Matabele and their predecessors and which head been known as the center of a \u00ab\u00a0rain cult\u00a0\u00bb of great influence and fame (a typical misunderstanding by the missionaries, as this was not a different religion but an aspect of the universal African traditional religion) that is still alive in the region with the rain sanctuary of Ingalele Rock a bit further south.Rhodes, who won the Matabeles trust and gleaned a lot of knowledge from the Sangomas of the Matabeles only to betray them terribly not much later, had this area declared a National Park which meant in effect the expulsion of the original inhabitants as he wanted to take <span>possession<\/span> of this magical peace of earth for his own dark magical purposes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">We had of course already orgonised his grave there earlier (an that of his notorious \u00ab\u00a0lieutenant\u00a0\u00bb Starr Leander Jameson) and now it was the turn for the other mortal remains of this restless spirit, a plan that had been on my agenda for a long time.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I ringed the Monument (very much designed to impress) wit 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orgoniseafrica.com\/orgonite-tb-dirty-harry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TBs<\/a> and hid a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orgoniseafrica.com\/orgonite-hhg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HHG<\/a> in a nearby shrub. May this gesture symbolically contribute to reversing some of the consequences of the great destruction of Africa by the white man and help to let something new, and alive emerge on this ancient continent, the cradle of humankind. May he rest in peace!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040531_Rhodes_memorial2.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Further orgonite gifts were distributed in the city bowl and in the \u00ab\u00a0Victoria and Alfred Waterfront\u00a0\u00bb a refurbished docklands area, with new upmarket housing, attractions and commerce, very popular with tourists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">The whole time I could watch lovely sylphs in the sky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040531_sylphs_over_waterfront.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040531_sylphs_over_va_waterfront.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">Sylphs over V+A Waterfront and harbour<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040531_syphs_over_ct_citybowl.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">Sylphs over inner city<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">The air pollution in Cape town,mostly from the unregulated burning for heating and cooking of all kinds of thrash in the growing slums is substantial and heavily competed with the more positive phenomena in the sky. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040531_pollution_over_Bloubergstrand.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">Air pollution over west coast (Bloubergstrand)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">2. The Koeberg nuclear power station<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Towards the end of the day I drove up north via Milnerton and Bloubergstrand, where I had seen the worst air pollution from afar. This area had already been treated by trevo not long ago, so I concentrated mostly on gifting the water bodies with my \u00ab\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orgoniseafrica.com\/orgonite-hhg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">etheric stick handgrenades<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">A few Gifts I did leave near Ysterplaat Airforce Base though (You never know with these things&#8230;) and a few other points on the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040532_Ysterplaat_AFB.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"HAARPy antenni behind a fenc\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">Some very HAARPy antennas on Ysterplaat AFB<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Koeberg should now become the adventure of the day: Under the motto \u00ab\u00a0<span>alone<\/span> against the nuke\u00a0\u00bb I approached the monster that was built into the sea on the beach.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">It was already dark and the route from the next accessible parking was some 3-4 km long. The power station had an eerie presence by night, lit up with yellow lights and the backdrop of that dark and raging sea. On getting nearer I felt tense and anxious. What would happen if I got detected. It was almost full moon and I had the impression of seeing a large lenticular cloud, said by many of our compadres to be a sure indication of a cloaked (mostly friendly Lemurian) UFO. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">That thought gave me some more courage.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I had to climb over those slippery surf breaker rocks in order to get closer and overcome a huge and grimy discharge pipe from which a tree sized jet of hoot fouls smelling water was constantly splattered onto the beach. Around the corner, still climbing over these slippery rocks, I understood the whole layout of the plant. The cooling water is being taken directly from the sea in vast amounts and pumped back at high <span>pressure<\/span> and quantity through a wide channel, separated from the intake by a quai of surf breakers, going out into the sea for a few hundred meters, this preventing the mingling of the cold intake water with the <span>somewhat<\/span> warmed exhaust water. The whole thing is pretty gigantic. I could unfortunately only reach the outlet side, where the water shot out into the sea like a river of 15-20m width. The orgonite gifts (3 \u00ab\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orgoniseafrica.com\/orgonite-hhg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">etheric stick hand grenades<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0) will probably not last very long under these conditions and will have to be replaced soon.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I felt so much lighter when I got out of the influence of this monster machine and the torchlight beams of the (luckily) somewhat sleepy guards and, inadvertently singing and whistling, strove back towards the car. It was only on my way back, that I noticed the \u00ab\u00a0No Entry\u00a0\u00bb signs that forbid access even to the <span>non-fenced <\/span>periphery of the plant. Well&#8230;. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">The intake is unfortunately fenced off in such a wide area that I had to bury ever dream of crowning this little adventure by gifting that side as well for this night.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I think this task could best be fulfilled from one of the many sea going yachts that can easily be hired for sports fishing tours etc..<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">At last: A mountain hike<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">For some time I&rsquo;ve been in contact with Cristo Louw from the UFO research group Saufor. He had told me that the area known as \u00ab\u00a0Old Silvermine Reserve\u00a0\u00bb has been reported in many UFO Experiences as a place of peculiarly intense activity, very well worth treating.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">So I thought: \u00ab\u00a0Why not spend the few hours before my flight goes back to Jo&rsquo;burg on a nice mountain stroll\u00a0\u00bb.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Off I went, paid 10 Rand entry fee (nature is surely not for free in Cape Town) and drove up to the silvermine water reservoir through the silvermine river valley, not without throwing the usual gifts out of the car window approximately every 250m (They&rsquo;re all green so they don&rsquo;t spoil the landscape)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040601_silvermine_reservoir.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"beautiful lake and hills\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Silent mountain lake, you beauty! The sending mast is not visible in the picture but is situated on the dark mountain top in the back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I left two of my special water gifts there and behold, a giant transmission tower on the peak in the distance caught my attention. Woopsi! Would I have a chance to make it up there in the short <span>period of <\/span>time <span>remaining<\/span> until my flight back to Jo&rsquo;burg?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Well, I can try at <span>least <\/span> I thought.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">So I trotted off in the general direction. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">t was a gorgeous day and everything smelled of some very aromatic herbs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">It was about 9.30 am and the flight was scheduled for 3 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040601_misty_cape_flats.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"View over the Cape Flats\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">The view over the Cape Flats war fantastic, it was difficult to distinguish between fogbanks and the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040601_eremits_hut.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"hut on mountantop\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Further up I passed by a hut, dramatically perched on a mountain top. Who would not want to spend a week there in meditation, provided someone else carried up all the food provisions&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040601_cave_entrance.jpg\" height=\"240\" alt=\"the cave at the end of the path\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">The path led to a cave that showed some surprising green fern growth in the interior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040601_view_into_cave.jpg\" height=\"375\" alt=\"the cave\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">Somewhat unreal, the whole thing. I left 2 orgonite gifts, in case I wouldn&rsquo;t make it up to the top anyways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040601_view_outa_cave.jpg\" height=\"375\" alt=\"view from inside the cave\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">View out of the cave<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">At the cave I should have turned around if I wanted to be sure to catch my plane. But now my ambition was fully enflamed now and I thought, well until 11 I can still continue going up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040601_ascent_to_mountain_top_tower.jpg\" height=\"375\" alt=\"HAARP tower\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">closer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040601_Mountain_top_tower.jpg\" height=\"375\" alt=\"approaching the HAARP tower\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">and closer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040601_Mountain_top_tower_base.jpg\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Almost a the tower\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">almost there<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040601_Mountain_top_tower_base-close-up.jpg\" height=\"294\" alt=\"at the DOR emmiting tower\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">and arrived! (Please note the small globe in the background: weather radar, a source of DOR- par Excellence)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">When I was finally up there and had laid out my gifts around the base of the tower, it was almost 12. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I tried to call Friederike and ask her to try and reschedule my flight, but in the middle of the sentence the battery of my cell phone went flat.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Dammit!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">I started running downhill, taking a major short cut by <span>galloping<\/span> straight down the steep slope, cursing and yelling through the thick knee high shrubs. I did indeed make it back to the car within 45 minutes and was at my friends&rsquo; <span>apartment<\/span> in Fish Hoek where I stayed at 12.45. No I only had to get the bed linnen from the laundry, make the bed, clean kitchen surfaces, wash hand basin, bath and toilet, stuff everything in my big bag, put a new T-shirt over my soaking wet body and off to the Airport. And almost forgot to leave the key with the caretaker.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">At 14.35 I was indeed at the check in counter of Kulula Air and they would even still have taken me, had I not needed to <span>dump<\/span> the rental car first.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Luckily there was no problem and they booked me on the next flight an hour later without any extra charges..<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">On the whole flight I observed a low foggy cloud cover with a clearly defined upper limit. A lot of moisture was already there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040602_cape_peninsula_300.jpg\" height=\"238\" alt=\"Map showing the outcome of the orgonite gifting trip\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;\">Blue Dots indicate orgonite gifts. Flags are Cloudbusters<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><span>R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">If the effort was worth it we will only see in the next days and weeks. Apart from the many sylphs, dramatic confirmations in the form of downpours did not occur. I think this was just a Beginning. The western part of the country had so far <span>benefitted <\/span> the least from our efforts. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Consequently the drought could be almost completely stopped and even partly reversed in the Eastern parts of the country but the western part, especially the atlantic coast was still suffering below average rain falls. This is where our emphasis will have to be in the next few months in order to let drought not even start to develop in the next planting season.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">We are therefore planning to finally pull off our long planned trip to namibia and the Northern Cape that was postponed last year for lack of funding.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">For this trip we will need at least 5 cloud-buster sponsorships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">Addendum 04 June 2004<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">In the meantime rain clouds have formed over the Cape Peninsula as shown in the radar weather map below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/4419\/8969\/files\/040604_Cape_town_radar_weather_300.jpg\" height=\"250\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">The yellow an red areas show the highest cloud density and are most likely the spots where it has already started to drizzle.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">The weather forecasts predict solid 100% rain for at least the next 3 days, starting tonight for Cape Town, Paarl and Hermanus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;\">___________________________________________________________________________ (317)|Cape Town |Temp |Wind Speed | |Min |Max |Direc. km\/h ___________________________________________________________________________ Fri |Partly cloudy, rain likely overnight (60%). | | |NW 30km\/h, 40 04th | Cape Flats: | | |in S reaching |High Tide: --:-- 16:21 Low: --:-- 22:27 | | |55 tonight |Sunrise: --:-- Sunset: 17:43 | | | ___________________________________________________________________________ Sat |Cloudy, intermittent rain (100%). |14 |16 |NW 40km\/h but 05th | Cape Flats: |14 |16 |50 at C. Point |High Tide: 04:35 17:11 Low: 10:55 23:22 | | | |Sunrise: 07:44 Sunset: 17:43 | | | |UV Sunburn factor Low | | | ___________________________________________________________________________ Sun |Cloudy with general rain (100%). |13 |15 |NW 30km\/h but 06th | Cape Flats: |12 |15 |40 at C. Point |High Tide: 05:28 18:04 Low: 11:46 --:-- | | | |Sunrise: 07:45 Sunset: 17:43 | | | |UV Sunburn factor Low | | | ___________________________________________________________________________ Mon |Cloudy, general rain (100%). |12 |14 |SW 30km\/h but 07th | Cape Flats: |11 |15 |40 at C. Point |High Tide: 06:24 19:02 Low: 00:21 12:40 | | | |Sunrise: 07:45 Sunset: 17:43 | | | |UV Sunburn factor Low | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________ (951)|Paarl |Temp |Wind Speed | |Min |Max |Direc. km\/h ___________________________________________________________________________ Fri |Partly cloudy, rain likely overnight (60%). | | |NW 30km\/h 04th | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________ Sat |Cloudy, intermittent rain (100%). |13 |15 |NW 30km\/h 05th | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________ Sun |Cloudy with general rain (100%). |12 |15 |NW 25km\/h 06th | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________ Mon |Cloudy, general rain (100%). |11 |14 |SW 25km\/h 07th | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________ (318)|Langebaan |Temp |Wind Speed | |Min |Max |Direc. km\/h ___________________________________________________________________________ Fri |Partly cloudy, cloudy overnight, no rain. | | |NW 30km\/h 04th | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________ Sat |Cloudy, intermittent rain (100%). |14 |16 |NW 35km\/h 05th | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________ Sun |Cloudy with general rain (100%). |12 |15 |NW 30km\/h 06th | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________ Mon |Cloudy, general rain (100%). |12 |15 |SW 30km\/h 07th | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________ (319)|Hermanus |Temp |Wind Speed | |Min |Max |Direc. km\/h ___________________________________________________________________________ Fri |Partly cloudy, cloudy overnight, no rain. | | |NW 40km\/h bec. 04th | | | | 50 in places ___________________________________________________________________________ Sat |Cloudy, occassional rain (100%). |14 |18 |NW 40km\/h, 50 05th | | | | in places ___________________________________________________________________________ Sun |Cloudy with general rain (100%). |12 |14 |W 30km\/h 06th | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________ Mon |Cloudy, general rain (100%). |12 |14 |SW 40km\/h 07th | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forecaster : Carlton<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pluie du Cap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2408,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"expedition_category":[],"class_list":["post-6077","expeditions","type-expeditions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servcrmpro.online\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expeditions\/6077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servcrmpro.online\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expeditions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servcrmpro.online\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/expeditions"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/servcrmpro.online\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expeditions\/6077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servcrmpro.online\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servcrmpro.online\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"expedition_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servcrmpro.online\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expedition_category?post=6077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}