Southwinds Bed & Breakfast Arniston

... and a cup. Wait to you see the meal - most impressive!!!

And so this morning we left a cloudy Mossel Bay and have arrived at The Beach House Backpackers in Wilderness . This is a beautiful setting overlooking a lovely beach. Fresh pizza being cooked up here tonight on the open fire so we might just have to get involved in that. And we are hoping to go canoeing tomorrow on the rivers through the forest here.

All in all - this trip for me thus far has ...

... Dat zijn grote beesten dus zo moeilijk kan dat niet zijn. De dolfijnen, zeehonden en schildpadden nemen we er wel bij.

Slaap wel en tot morgen

PS : Kan iedereen die deze blog leest een notake achterlaten in het gastenboek zodat we even kunnen zien we er allemaal onze avonturen kan volgen (de email adressen zijn in "een rappeke" ingevoerd zodat we niet weten of er foutjes inzitten of niet). Alvast bedankt !

... We did meet back up with a paved road, R319, after an hour or so and followed this directly through the town. The route is well marked and well maintained. We stopped at the first parking lot and opted to walk. The day was beautiful albeit very windy. Being the geek that I am I had my Garmin 60cx GPS out and was watching it count down the longitude to exactly 20.0000 degrees east. I even have video and photos to ...

... life in the prison, including 3 months in isolation where he said he counted ants as they made their way across his cell floor to pass the time. Jamie and I noted how lucky we were to take the tour while men like him were still around and willing to share their experience. Future tourists won't have that opportunity as the years pass. Hopefully their stories won't be lost. After our tour of Robben Island, we then rented a ...

... hippie streakers raced into the ocean. Ben caught it all on film. I think our favorite picture is the middle aged dude's white bare bottom as he runs into the waves. Watching him make a mad dash out was even better. Ben has no discretion and pictures of this view were also taken - clearly the water was frigid. We lunched on Cape Point and were attacked by Baboons! Those cheeky devils! They are not only not afraid of humans but actually ...

... We sat around listened to live music, sipped wine (I drank water too), and waited for the lucky draw to get my hopes up and then completely destroy them every time!!!   Thursday we were at school parties and eating food all day (see last blog), and later that night Lizelle had a wonderful idea to bake cookies with Sarah for all the street children.  They baked South African Butter cookies in little Christmas shapes... I couldn't tell you much about it so I'll let Sarah ...

... quick to settle into the white bus that was to be our home on the road for the week and although at first no-one wanted to sit in the front with Keith we soon discovered the advantage of a better view and more leg-room and by the end of the week it was us three girls who took it in turns to share the honour of sitting up front, although I managed to nab the position more often than not by being the last person into the bus. On Monday it was mostly driving, we stopped at the ...

... ride on them. Silly me decided to volunteer to go first which was stupid really being as accident prone as i seem to be on this trip!! Luckily i managed to ride the ostrich for a few seconds before being helped off by the guides...no injuries to show either. It was really funny then to watch other people do it, especially Carmen as her bird pelted off at top speed! That evening we headed back ...

... ecological conservation on an international level. Well-known fynbos species are the Proteas and the Ericas. Best time to of the year to view this fynbos is from Autumn to Spring when most species flower. We then turned inland along a gravely road (about 70 K) towards Hermanus via Elim, Baarskeerdersbos, Pearly Beach, Frankskraal and Gansbaai. In 1824 Moravian missionaries founded the Elim Mission Station in the Strandveld on the banks of ...

... poor girl next to me ran out of battery power for her camera...so she's taken my memory card and getting my pics put on CD so she's got some whale pics, even if they are mine, I'm not even going to charge for copyright ;O) So that's what I've done today, it's lunchtime-ish and this evening I'm catching the Baz Bus to Cape Town where I'll arrive about 10. Then it's about 8 nights in CT then fly to JBG next Sat to stay with Derek for a night before flying to Perth.