My two cents worth on Arabi Dam.
I was there when it was still a river, I walked the banks with me pellet gun shooting birds and gueneafowl. This was about 1984/5 or there about??
Then they bult the Dam and I watched it filling up day by day,
I stand to be corrected but the dam only took 2 week to fill to capcity. I used to row out and sit under the, then still growing, akasias and blue gums.
We caugt many kurper and makrielle, no bass though. I can still remember rowing over the farm gates and fence wires, weird. We used to watch the carp and barbel feed in the mielie field, of the cobb, which was then submerged under 2m of water......
Interresting time. At that stage the farm still belonged to the "Dept. van samewerking en ontwikkeling"
I actually still have old pictures of this. I will scratch arround maybe I can still find them
BenBB