Very interesting story, we stay right next to water Sisulu garden.🌹🌹

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it. It's a lovely spot. If you ever find a rock marked V.D.M... 🤓

@mamtaramparsadh8866

Жыл бұрын

We go often to the garden as we have access, I will try. Thank you.

Mr. Prodgers!! What a pleasure to get s video early on a Thursday. You inspire us to explore our own country. Great video and awesome storytelling! Thank you

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for those words of encouragement.

You're stories are worth gold and I'm glad you're keeping it safe for our South African nation. Please consider covering the story of the treasure of President Paul Kruger in the Blyde River

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. Yes, the Kruger treasure stories are fascinating. There are so many that if they were all true, I guess we would all be millionaires! 😅 I will try to put together an episode next year.

@user-lh2mk4um5s

9 ай бұрын

My Great-grandmother worked as Paul Kruger Cook in Pretoria... My Granny who raised me told me how Great-granny cooked a "suckling pig' with an apple in its mouth for some event.. My granny was a teenager at the time...

Always interesting content. Thank you for your work sir. Have a fantastic week.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Absolute pleasure. Thanks for your comment. And the same to you for the week and beyond.

This video is oddly comforting. Feels like a 2000s documentary. A nostalgic feeling 😂

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Mission accomplished.

Enjoy these tales so much!!!

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

Awesome stuff Al.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Glad you liked it. I hope you enjoy browsing the other episodes as well.

As a Tourguide and overlander, I know you are freaking entertaining,well done my man. Keep it up!

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying the episodes. Any suggestions for topics?

I've Also heard about a large stash of Gold burried somewhere between Vanderbijlpark and Parys? On a farm that used to be called Kaalplaas? It's rumoured that the Boers burried it as they retreated North Away from the advancing British? Today there are just a few plots in the area. Those people could be living almost on top of the greatest treasure that has not been found in Southern Africa??

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating! What a possibility. I've never heard that story before.

@charlesknowles6301

Жыл бұрын

@@JustOfftheHighway I heard the story recently? From a partner of someone in my family. He got this information from a family member of the previous owner of the farm? My gut feeling tells me it was gold braught from Bloemfontein during the Boer retreat? It must have been slowing the Boers Down too much? So they burried it?

@charlesknowles6301

Жыл бұрын

@@JustOfftheHighway the Boers had plenty plenty gold for obvious reasons. I believe that there must be at least a dozen sites where gold has been burried and remained undiscovered? Especially in the old Transvaal and modern day Gauteng? The Kruger millions? Im a believer in that legend? There is no way Paul Kruger and his traveling party could have transported all his gold bullion from Krugersdorp to the Mozambican coast? No way! If I had the manpower, money, equipment and time. I would start to look about 3-4 km east of Krugersdorp central. (Not sure if it would be a residential area? Or open veld?). I would send up drones with hi tech cameras. Look for anything out of the ordinary? Stones and rocks? And markers? Crosses? Arrows? Circles? Anything. That is were I would start to look. Anybody who finds the Kruger millions? It's the same as hitting the Powerball!!!

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Family stories are powerful provenance.

excellent, Al, lovely story well presented, well told - good man 🫡

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Rod! Can't wait to get to CT so you can join me on an episode.

You're such a great story teller. Part of me was watching this and thinking how much fun Josh Gates from Expedition Unknown would have with a story like this but then I remember how they messed up the Krugerand story by trying to be politically correct. And then I realized they don't need to do anything. You already told the story perfectly! That being said, and with Expedition Unknown in mind, I wonder if GPR or Lidar has been attempted on the grounds before. As always, thanks for telling the tale.

@JustOfftheHighway

5 ай бұрын

Hi! Thanks for your kind comment. It's a huge compliment to mention Just off the Highway in the same breath as those massive multi-national productions. My story dated from the 1950's (I think) so I have no idea if new technology has been used. It would open up fascinating possibilities!

This is a lovely story. Thanks. I grew up in Witpoortjie, but have never heard either stories

@JustOfftheHighway

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Mr Prodgers, do you know how upset you will be if those tarentaal scallywags following you so closely actually found that gold? 😯 I am pretty sure I saw that shady one on the left taking notes... As always, thank you for brightening up a rainy day. 🙏

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Yep, Guinea fowl are obviously crooks. Just look at those masks. 👀 Cheers, Charlie. Thanks!

I proposed to my wife by the waterfall ❤... And now it means even more to us!! Thanks my china🎉

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Wow, that's a great compliment. Thanks

OH MY WORD..HERE THEY COME BY THE BUSLOADS.. .GOODBYE BOTANICAL GARDENS!!!!!

I found my first meteorite debris field today, in Alberton.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

That's fascinating. I never knew it existed. Please feel free to mail me on info@alprodgers.co.za if you'd like to share some of the information for an episode.

There may or may not be buried gold but forty years ago my brother went into the river there messing around with his friends around the waterfall and up and down for two hours wearing his Stainless Steel Rolex Oyster Datejust Chronometer and didn't come out with it as the shoddy cheap and nasty Rolex strap broke. As it's a Rolex if anyone finds it if it hasn't already been found it will still work 😀

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

That must've hurt! Sorry about your brother's lost Rolex. I must say your story will make me look a little deeper into the water next time I visit.

@klienthelp5860

Жыл бұрын

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Where is just off the highway these days?? 😢

@JustOfftheHighway

9 ай бұрын

Hi Amberjoy, thanks for asking and for your support. I would LOVE to do more regular episodes, but unfortunately, they cost lots to make and have no corporate sponsorship, so I have to fit them in between other paying work. There is a new episode in production which I plan to post before the end of October. Please share episodes that you enjoy with your network so that I can increase views and subscriptions (and eventually earn some revenue 😜). Cheers, Al

A fairly tale

I believe some treasure was buried at Hectorspruit. I had a copy of one of Ben Viljoen's men's war diary, (Rootman) which was scribbled on scraps of paper, and later published in book form. Unfortunately I lent the book to an uncle, who, without my knowing, was in the early stages of dementia. I never got the book back, I believe his wife got rid of it with his other books after he fell ill. Rootman wrote: "by Hectorspruit het ons goed begrawe wat die nageslag seker eendag sal opgrawe". Think of it, they would not have buried food or supplies or clothes, but possibly some archived documents? It would not have been difficult to put some of Kruger's gold among that. There are however, a few curious unexplained aspects regarding genl Ben Viljoen that bothers me. After the war the other Boer Generals shunned him and would not be associated with him. He ended up in America where he allegedly became an advisor of the then president Ted Roosevelt. To end up in those circles he would have needed lots of money, so it is quite possible he secretly dug the stuff up, he would certainly have been the one person that had a good idea where it was buried and what it contained. Another published diary by Schickerling described a similar happening of something buried at Hectorspruit, but I do not remember the exact words. Both those men were with Ben Viljoen's commando who escorted Pres Krugers train to the Moçambique border. Logic tells me they would not have allowed a national treasure to be taken across border.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating! So many tempting snippets of information.

Wouldn't be surprised if a few treasure hunters turn up here with their metal detectors, lol.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

I hope not! 😆

@samp4050

Жыл бұрын

@@JustOfftheHighway Well it would be good for the park, lol.

Please can you make a video at the rsme?

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Hi, I've had to Google it. Do you mean the Rand Society of Model Engineers? If you do, please send me a message and I'd be eager to connect next year.

@TheClass56xxfan

Жыл бұрын

@@JustOfftheHighway yes please, and if youre interested could you tell the club hen you'd like to visit via facebook and i'll try to get as many members to come as possible so you have a lot of eye candy to film!

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

@@TheClass56xxfan I will make contact in the new year. Would appreciate your first name or some other detail as a reference when I do.

@TheClass56xxfan

Жыл бұрын

@@JustOfftheHighway Thank you so much! my name is Jaydan

I’m gonna get you more subscribers.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for your encouraging comments. I would really appreciate it.