Birkenhead House Hermanus

... golf course. Pinnacle Point not far from Mossel Bay. The course was part designed by Darren Clarke. It runs along steep cliffs with some spectacular scenery and views. It took a bit of getting used to the distances between green and tees (and a golf cart and no caddies!!) but we both warmed to the course and really enjoyed the back nine. The clubhouse and facilities were very similar to St Andrews Bay but again even though the course was fairly busy the ...

... Knysna, Wilderness, Oudtshoorn and Mossel Bay. 'We' being me and Karina, the Belgian I've been travelling with for the last 5 weeks, plus a few Germans and Swiss for a few days at a time each. Karina and I have now said our goodbyes as she needs to be in Cape Town for a wedding tomorrow so this last week before my parents and sister arrive will be solo, although I've just landed at a fab backpackers in Hermanus so I doubt that will be ...

... the shark swam 6 inches in front of our cage for the entire length of it. It was crazy! In reality it is better to watch them from the boat where you can see them jumping out of the water to try and eat the fish (which was never fed to them, but just used as bait). It was definitely crazy to be in the water with great white sharks swimming around our boat. You did not want to fall in!

... distance... (Ocean Eleven Guest House, www.oceaneleven.co.za) I wake up in the middle of the night and am ****** as the super bowl is not available despite them saying it would be when I called ahead to make assurance double sure I'd get to see the G'men win! I follow along via B'berry for a few minutes before falling asleep because I realized I just didn't care enough about the game.

... gmail.com Please tell ALL your friends and families (or just bulk email EVERYONE in your address book) about my book and blog. Hopefully I can get some validation and appreciation for me efforts (it was all fun, I promise)! Ov** and Out Dave Epilogue Exc**pt from Blog: Sunday February 11th 2007. So I finally made it home - in one piece. I have gone straight back to work and will be updating all the missing stories ...

... and is actually a very popular tourist attraction around here. Basically, we headed out with a few dozen people in a 42' catamaran boat. After we anchored in open water they lowered a rectangular steel cage with floats on top into the sea, then they tied it to the side of the boat. Once they were all set up, they began to pour chum (a stinky mix of water, fish blood, and entrails) into the water and also threw in a rope with a large fish head attached ...

... derailing, and the dhow to Mombassa getting stuck on the ocean for a week because there is no wind and I had picked a cheap boat without an outboard motor! On the other hand I was convinced that everything would go according to plan and hoped that I wouldn't sulk for too long when it didn't. All experienced African travelers guaranteed me that this would definitely happen! I was still looking for interesting angles for ...

... deep breath and go under-becoming face to face with the GReat White! The visibility was great, and there was a huge open space in front of the cage where are faces were so we could have a clear view. The sharks were huge! All of them (I think there were 6) were Great Whites. One was about 12-13 feet long! Another one knocked into our cage when we were under the water-I can't even explain how wild it was. It was like something you see on National Geographic. I ...

... get. The salesclerk pulled a 256mb player off the shelf and told me that it was on promotion for R400, or I could get the 512mb for R550. I decided on the smaller one, to save $25 bucks and got an MP3 player for $66. It only holds 80 songs but I don't need more than that, I'm going to get mine fixed when I get home I just need something to hold me over. I'll simply switch out the songs when I get sick of them. I headed back to the ship and called Jill, we left 10 minutes later to go ...

... company and went to work for the other. We met a couple at a backpackers that are from South Africa. They went on holiday to Zimbabwe a month ago during a major fuel shortage here. This is a whole other issue we had to deal with while traveling here. The company they were flying with did not have enough fuel to get the plane back to South Africa. They could have purchased some from a different company that had some, but they ...