On The Trail Of Yellowfish In The Grenadier Quartermaster
TACKLE-ANYTHING CAPABILITY
Fishing travel experts, African Waters, has a special mission: to develop and run remote fishing camps, whilst conserving ecosystems and working with local communities.
When we say remote fishing camps, we mean it. Take African Waters’ Makhangoa Camp. It’s in the centre of Lesotho, the Mountain Kingdom, on the banks of the Bekong River. To get there, you need a capable, and comfortable, 4X4.
Google Maps won’t help if you navigate from Johannesburg. All you’ll get is a ‘sorry, we can’t calculate directions’ message. But the app did help the team at African Waters help find this area in the first place.
Back in 2011, its fishing and travel experts used it to explore Lesotho’s waterways, looking for a world-class Yellowfish destination.
After spending hours researching online, they headed out on some white knuckle exploratory 4X4 trips. What they found offers a Yellowfish experience like no other. Along 20km of some of Southern Africa’s finest waters.
REACHING THE FISH
Today, the journey to the river, the camp and the fish takes four hours from the border with South Africa. The last hour of the drive is off-road: a gravel track that becomes increasingly challenging. High clearance vehicles are needed, and the last 100 metres is particularly steep. When you get there, you see that locals use horses to get around, and donkeys to carry loads up and down the steep mountain passes. Exactly the kind of journey, and terrain, our ultimate 4X4 was built for.
Experience the INEOS Grenadier Quartermaster’s tackle-anything for yourself.
ACCESSING POWER
Accessing remote destinations across challenging terrain is what our ultimate 4X4 does best, including our pick-up with tackle-anything capability. So, we gave a Grenadier Quartermaster to Africa Waters owner and founder, Keith Clover.
Watch as he uses it to access this magical, inaccessible, fishing spot, and introduce just one of the projects this kind of community tourism is proud to support: bringing solar power to 65 households.
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