The Visitors Center of Soekershof Walkabout is housed in a tatched cottage which, together with the homestead of nearby Fraai Uitzicht, is the oldest existing building (anno 1798) between Swellendam and Tulbagh.

In the Visitors Center one finds not only a video and photo-presentation of the development of Soekershof Walkabout since April 2000 but also a small collection of handcrafted gifts exclusively made by local artists for Soekershof.

Roy Reycraft is master craftsman (“Craftmanship = Reycraftship”) and became known for his sundials. Before that he was an explosives-expert but experienced that creating beautiful sculptures is far more satisfying than demolishing nature. For Soekershof Roy creates the brass labyrinth keyrings and the SOEKERSHOF SPRAYERS.

Marion Maclean is an illustrator, botanist and graphic designer with the good fortune to live in the Robertson karoo. She has been producing scientific and popular illustrations for 18 years. Marion ran her own advertising agency in KZN. She now offers wildflower guiding in the karoo and fynbos as well. Illustration commissions accepted with delight! During weekends Marion guides visitors through the different succulent gardens of Soekershof Walkabout. In The Shop visitors will find her greeting cards and originals.

Messina Mussindo (“you may call me Joey”) is a great wire-artist; better known abroad than within South Africa. His work can be found in galleries, private collections and musea within Europe, America, Far East and Africa. Joey has his own small workshop (with display) in the Visitors Center and the large monumental objects are created in the barn opposite. The wire-baobab tree at the entrance made him famous. Joey wants to go into history as ‘The one-wire Artist’. Several of his objects are made out of one single piece of wire.

Yvonne de Wit is the ‘Lady of the house’. Her abstract paintings are symbols of daily life and experiences of her travels around the Globe. Her work can also be found in private collections in Europe, America and Australia. Nowadays she hardly has the time to travel and to paint. Her creativity is fully focussed on the (succulent) gardens of Soekershof.

Herman van Bon is widely unjustly regarded as the “mastermind of Soekershof” for Soekershof Walkabout is a natural grown collective concept involving all people (including visitors) who participate(d) in the idea-generating, creation and maintenance of the gardens. Supported by Yvonne and the Soekershof staff he loves to create gardens. The rockeries at the entrance are refined examples of his ‘creativity on the spot’. His motto: “A garden has to grow under your fingertips”.

If time allows Herman nowadays also consults third parties and is involved in landscaping projects (see also Additional services ).