IT’S A wild, wild RIDE
For more than 20 years I’ve travelled the world, filling my global adventure jar with incredible experiences. But besides the Camino de Santiago walking pilgrimage in Spain, my journeys have all been fuelled by trains, planes and automobiles.
“... we had to carry everything we needed in custom-made saddlebags”
When my long-time friend, Shane Eades, shared his dream of leading horseback expeditions along the Wild Coast and invited me to join his pioneering group, I was excited but apprehensive. As an inexperienced rider, the prospect of spending more than three weeks in the saddle, crossing rivers, beaches, fairy forests and rocky river mouths was daunting.
Shane owns Terra-Khaya Eco-backpackers and Amathole Horse Trails in Hogsback and has been around horses all his life. Together with friend Sebastian Gidlow, also an experienced rider and ex-show-jumper, they nurtured the Wild Coast horsey dream to fruition.
Twelve riding lessons later, when I could canter comfortably without falling off, I – and my very minimal baggage –
