Estate Living August 2016 Digital Issue | Page 11

meyersdal eco estate Who says you can’t have it all– convenience, security, space and the sense of being in the wild? Well, that’s not true. You can have it all. You can have state-of-the-art everything that opens and closes, and easy access to schools, shops and business centres, and still be surrounded by wide open spaces filled with a variety of nature’s amazing beauty filled with kudu, springbok, wildebeest and zebra. It’s a kind of magic that’s hard to find in a modern world, and it’s called Meyersdal Eco Estate. In keeping with the theme and ethos of the estate, only indigenous plants are used in the landscaping, and large tracts of land are left unspoilt and natural for the animals and birds. Game such as red hartebeest, steenbuck, Burchell’s zebra, black wildebeest, springbuck of course and even the huge, placid kudu once roamed freely among these hills, and now they’ve been reintroduced. As well as these reintroduced mammals, which total well over 200 individual animals, there are 98 recorded bird species which include the resident pair of Verreaux’s eagles, 28 species of reptile, five fish species and a host of butterflies, bees and bugs. Residents that are adventurous can explore the beauty of the estate along the 16 kilometres of mountain bike trails or the seven kilometres of hiking paths while enjoying nature with plenty of fresh air. And for those that are less adventurous, the estate can be explored in the comfort of your vehicle. And if you want more, the 680 h