Motivating change in our waterways... it starts with YOU!

About us

There are many ways in which we can get technical about the how’s, when’s and why’s we started this journey, but ours is a story, and there's only one thing to do with a story, you tell it. 

By "us", I mean 2 girls, Maria Botha and Liani Broodryk, 2 Jack Russels, Katryn and Dante on bicycles, and our amazing journey through South Africa. This is how it started:
It was one night, at a get together, surrounded by friends and family, when the reality of the moment struck. What was usually fun and games, turned stale, suddenly! Stuck in the proverbial rut! The moment was too big to ignore, so, the obvious question was, where to go from here? So as if by design, we set off to St Lucia, to new horizons, self discoveries, and a tremendous awakening. 
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Yamaha South Africa proud Sponsors of our transport for the 23000km around Southern Africa to raise awareness for WATER

We are doing this expedition on Yamaha AG200's

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Nelspruit, Swaziland and then the borderpost by Goba to Mozambique

Frustrated and confused by roaming and the only now and a again internet connectivity we decided to rather have the journey instead of missioning everyday to get internet. Meaning that we are behind schedule with our postings but with the help of Vodacom Mozambique and Skygistics ( Uni-Tech Moz Lda) we are picking up our simcards and hopefully we'll be uploading and keeping you up to date via our mobile phones.

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Its the people that cross our paths that makes this expedition!!

Thanks for the support Wikus!! Your passion to share the outdoor with people are contagious. 

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We filed in the convoy at the Rhino Rally

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Mechani Bike in Witbank and a day spend next to the Klein Olifanstriver

 

 

 

Thanks to Neville and his team at Mechani Bike in Witbank for sorting out Dante and Katryn's visors. 

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From the beginning

After talking with Gabriel and John at the Golden Gate Sanparks they send me to the Golden Gate dam to get visuals of their water. Sanparks are doing lots to see to it that the water quality in the parks are of a high standard. 

Liani busy packing. With the change form bicycle to motorbike came a whole lot of new challenges.

Martella du Preez from the CSIR SODIS team handing us our bottles that we'll be using to purify our water. For the past 5 years we have been drinking water straight from our streams and rivers, dams and virtually anywhere. 

AND SO THE JOURNEY BEGINS

OMG, there is so much to write about!  We’ve had a tremendously exciting month behind us.  Getting gear and bikes and bags and racks, and, and, and, was quite the feat…

When we realized that we still do not have adequate funds with which to execute our expedition to the full extend in which we intended, we got a little worried and organized a last minute fundraiser, which turned out to be fantastical fun, but unfortunately we still didn’t manage to raise enough funds to sustain us.

We could however not be stopped or slowed down. We were so convinced that once we got on the road, things would work out fine.  We have so many extraordinary companies, organizations and people behind us that we had no choice other than to have faith in the path that is shown.

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Ripples For Good...Motivating Change in the Waterways...It Starts with YOU!!

The Ripples for Good team comprises Liani Broodryk, Maria Botha, Dante and Katryn.  In part one of their epic journey, Liani and Maria along with their Jack Russell dogs, Katryn and Dante, will circumnavigate the entire boundary of South Africa and parts of Mozambique and Namibia.  The purpose of their journey will be to raise awareness and inspire public action surrounding the critical issues of water conservation and safe consumption in our communities.  They will do so alone and unaided, travelling via motorbike, bicycle, canoe, donkey cart and by foot during the various stages of their 16 500 km journey to promote “Ripples for Good”.

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