7-821: The Kouga River originates near Uniondale , Eastern Cape , South Africa , and flows eastward, where it joins the Groot River to form the Gamtoos just past the Kouga Dam . Its main tributary is the Baviaanskloof River , which joins its left bank before the dam. The Kouga is part of the Gamtoos river system which is formed by the Groot and the Baviaanskloof River. The Kouga Mountains to
14-600: Is only classified as near threatened , in Australia species of the same genus were driven to extinction by competing salmonids and other introduced species of fish. Uniondale, Western Cape Uniondale is a small town in the Little Karoo in the Western Cape Province , South Africa . The town was formed in 1856 by the joining of two towns, Hopedale and Lyons. Its primary claim to fame
21-645: Is the ghost story of the Uniondale hitcher. The town is connected by the N9 road to George and the R339 road , down to Knysna . In stormy weather on Easter weekend of 1968 a young engaged couple had a car accident on the Barandas-Willowmore road around 20 kilometres from the town. The woman, Maria Charlotte Roux, was sleeping in the back seat of their Volkswagen Beetle when her fiancé lost control of
28-401: The basic characteristics of the well-known Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend, which was described thus by Ernest W. Baughman: Ghost of young woman asks for ride in automobile, disappears from closed car without the driver's knowledge, after giving him an address to which she wishes to be taken. The driver asks person at the address about the rider, finds she has been dead for some time. (Often
35-482: The car. The car overturned and she was killed. The first reported sighting of a ghost matching her description occurred during the Easter weekend of 1976, and since then many other sightings have been reported. All involve a female hitchhiker who is given a lift, then disappears a few kilometers down the road, and some have reported car doors opening and closing, laughter and a chill in the air. This story has many of
42-417: The driver finds that the ghost has made similar attempts to return, usually on the anniversary of death in automobile accident. Often, too, the ghost leaves some item such as a scarf or traveling bag in the car.)[ ] Dalene Matthee, author of Fiela se kind, lived in Uniondale from 1971 – 1978, when her husband was the bank manager. A few of the film locations for Fiela se kind, were also in the town. The town
49-885: The north the river, Kouga Municipality and Kou-Kamma Municipality are named after this waterbody. In 1995 specimens of the Cape galaxias ( Galaxias zebratus ), a South African fish species endemic to the Cape Floristic Region , were found in the Kouga and in the Krom River . Until then it had been thought that its distribution was restricted to the area between the Keurbooms and the Olifants River . Although in South Africa this relatively delicate fish
#981018