Have spoken to the manager of ZV Nature reserve and the Vlei will fill up as follows: When it rains… The weir will be closed in the case of little or no rain at the end of July – thats soon folks or in the case of lots of rain at the end of the first week of August – so do your last minute reed maintainance, boat painting etc. batton down the hatches and shine up the oars – cause SPRING here we come… Yippee! 🙂