Amapondo Port St Johns
PO Box 190, Wildcoast Port St Johns, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Last review: Dec 30, 20111 mile NE of Amapondo
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Hangin with the hippies :)
Thepedro stayed here on Sep 4, 2011 during their trip titled: Thepedro's Great Adventure.
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A random road trip
... that it is more like Scotland meets Vietnam. The wild coast, the rugged cliffs with rolling grassy tops, the grazing animals, the azure blue ocean with contrasting white-topped waves and the gorges where each type of vegetation clambers on top of the others to try to get to the top creating a blanket of lush green forest on the valley floors and up the sides of the steep hills.
We stayed at the wonderful Outspan Inn in a ...
A bit of an extended stay
... of places to stay along the coast and with that I was back to dreaming...
Some hours later we arrived at another fuel station. This time in Umtata, my stop. It looked like a chaotic party happening in the streets of Umtata. Yes, I gripped my bag a bit with the scene before me. Was I back in Asia? The driving turned horrendous. Surely we would run someone over with the free-for-all happening in the streets. We didn't but visions flashed before ...
Sardines and Sea Sickness
This is a top pick!
... under the straps on the floor....this is done in order to help prevent you getting thrown into the pounding surf when trying to get out over the breakers. Mikkey our skipper headed out along the river again until we reached the breakers, every one was told to hold tight and out we went. It took several attempts to get out into open sea, The first and second waves were expertly passed but then the next big wave was upon us way too fast, and ...
A New Continent!
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... on, another 4 hours.
The Sardine Run, is often called "The Greatest Shoal On Earth". Every year millions upon millions of sardines migrate up the coast of South Africa, following the cold currents. It is the greatest marine migration on the planet. These huge shoals of sardines bring in the predators.....whales, thousands of dolphins, tens of thousands of gannets and marine birds, big game fish and sharks....and this, is what we have ...
