1201 meters above sea level.
Murraysburg Meander
It was the lack of water that led the Hottentots who wandered with their fat-tailed sheep over its reaches to call it Garob or Caro, a word which signified the 'Place of Great Dryness'. Early travellers, hunters and explorers who followed the trails of the Hottentots rendered this in their writings as Carrow, or Karoo.
Today the 'Place of Great Dryness' apears to be well named: it was not always so. A mere two hundred years ago, when the first of the White hunters and travellers ventured over the mountain tangers that barricade its douthers skirts, the Great Karoo plains supported vast heards of sleek fat buck and other animals which found the grazing ample. Man and his stock changed all this. Buck fell to the rifle in untold numbers and their old grazing grounds were given over to voracious sheep and goats which nibbled their herbage down to bare earth to start a vicious cycle of erosion