Aventura Plettenberg Plettenberg Bay

The Protea Guest House is perched perfectly in amongst the leafy trees on a hill over-looking the Knysna Estuary and the Knysna Heads. We were fortunate enough to stay in this guest house and I in particular spent many an hour just standing on the big wooden deck where we ate breakfast every morning, staring out at the stunning view. It was truly breathtaking and had a hugely calming effect on me.

Knysna has always been one of my favourite ...

... that is if you really find some stuff to do.

What fascinated me about Knysa and what I would soon learn about most cities and Towns in South Africa is, no matter how nice they are there are always poor Black townships filled with shacks in them. I had thought it was just in Jo'burg and CapeTown but they are all over South Africa. It has been 15 years since the ending of Apartheid, you would think that people would not have to still live ...

... asztalt egy wildernessi étterembe, ami szinte az óceán fölött lebegett. Kicsit kaotikus volt a kiszolgálás, de a strucc szték és a garnélás bélszín megmentette a helyet. Egyébként a kaja meglepően olcsó Dél-Afrikában, egy otthoni erős pizzázás árából itt fejedelmi borvacsorát csap az ember szuper alapanyagokból, sok tengeri és vadkajával, holland eredetű desszertekkel, minőségi borokkal és néha kissé zsákbamacskaszerű felszolgálással.

... a few nights. A wonderful canoe trip in The Wilderness National Park was a wonderful experience. We were just given a map and paddles and off we went canoeing through gorges and the like to a point where we had to get out and walk (without the canoe I must add) to a waterfall where we bumped into some fellow backpackers from The Beach House. Upon our return we popped into a lovely looking restaurant/bar in the village for a coffee and a few cocktails with ...

... The trail should have come with a disclaimer as the path often turned into rock face along the seafront, I was praying the tide wouldn't come in and wash us away. Then up a huge hill to the restaurant at Storms River Mouth. The views and wildlife of the park were well worth the sore feet. No time to rest though as in the afternoon we went and did the treetop canopy tour. This is a cracking feet of engineering, the ...

... means that you don't get power for 2-3 hours a day. We hit the power outage at the wrong time, as we had a long walk home in a strange place in the dark. Thankfully, it is really safe along the Garden Route and we didn't have any problems.........but we could have used one of those flashlights that were stolen in Mozambique!........damn, another thing we lost. The next day, we took a Surfing lesson from a German born, Australian ...

I remember her visit from America very clearly. I was 9 at the time, and I hadn't seen my Nana in forever. I was so excited. When she came out of the airport, I practically jumped on her!! Right after she arrived, we went to go see my second cousins, Kirsten and Megan, where they were ...

... cord started slowing me down; I couldn't even get a scream out until after the first bounce. Five or six bounces later after I stopped swinging a guy was lowered from the bridge, he hooked a cable onto my harness and up we went. It was amazing and like no other rush I have ever felt, a combination of extreme terror, mind-bending thrill, and pure exhilaration. I'd do it again and highly recommend it to anyone, especially if you are afraid of ...

... anyway. It was incredibly windy and felt like it did when we did the sky dive! Then it was back to Plett on Monday morning at 5am. Spent the week working in the office and going out on the boats. Saw bottle nosed dolphins and humpback whales only this week We are also trying to reconstruct a Cape Fur Seal skeleton (when the animals strand we take them back to the farm and the skin, etc is scrapped off the bones and they are put in to soak - or rot - when they have ...

Nous voilŕ donc, de bon matin, congelés avec deux anglaises sur la plate-forme arričre du bakkie (pick-up), qui traîne aussi nos canoës pour les 10km qui nous séparent de la rivičre. Notre guide est une sorte de surfeur dreadlocké, comme on en trouve partout dans la région (visiblement). Ce n'est qu'une fois arrivés sur place qu'on apprend qu'il aurait fallu qu'on vienne en tongs ou sandales, tant pis faudra se mettre pieds nus. Et pour le départ, nos ...