on the the way to Calvinia

I'm a little under the weather today. I have an incredible head ache that makes the French guillotine look like an attractive prospect, anything to get this head off my shoulder! But I thought I would post one of the pictures I took on my way to Calvinia on the R27. Between Vanrhynsdorp and Nieuwoudtville the R27 goes up the escarpment onto the Bokkeveldberge and this is the view you get when you look from it to the West.
In case you are lost as to where all this is, it is in western South Africa just between the Western Cape Province and the Northern Cape Province. Technically what you are looking at here is the plains of the Western Cape and the ridge of the Bokkeveldberge which is in the Northern Cape Province since the escarpment is exactly the boundary between the two provinces.

It is a beautiful view, as usual it is hard to do it justice in photos.
Imagine yourself standing there with the sun already warm (it is about 8:00am) but the air still reasonably cool. The smell is the smell of the desert with a very light breeze. This plain goes for as far as the eye can see to the North (to the right) and the ridges break it in the South. And this all view came as a bit of a surprised since you had never realized before that the so called escarpment here was actually true to its name and was a cliff that would offer you a view.