Burning Shore Swakopmund

... night, we had mealie pap (kind of like mashed potatoes, but made of corn meal) with a spicy cabbage sauce; I was very excited because I've read about mealie pap being an African staple in so many books, but never really knew what it was like. The answer is: bland and sticky, but very good with spicy cabbage sauce! In the morning, we saw baboons running around the camp grounds looking for food, but they didn't get any mealie pap.

The next ...

... there is not much to do in Swakopmund but drink Jagermeister, because it seems to happen a lot. We offered to be Elena's personal photographer, and took lots of pictures of her skydiving, until we realized that it wasn't actually her, but Wayne. We quickly erased the pictures and took more of her when she actually jumped. We could hear her screaming from the ground.

The next day, Sarah purchased her bus ticket and decided to head back to South Africa a ...

... decided to be a traitor and come to this hostel tomorrow. Finished off the night having some Shesha and Mike and Elese let us know that on Thursday their friend was spinning at the place Bang Bang I had been. 16th Rented a car to go to one of the areas I hadn't seen on the wine tour- Constantia which was just outside of Cape Town and used the excuse with the hostel that I was going to stay out of town and changed hostels. Ended up using a scanned copie of my driver's ...

... hill breathing hard as I lugged up two boards. Most people by this time had had enough and were enjoying being spectators in mine and Gabe’s competition, cheering and egging us on.

When I got to the top I therefore requested three boards, which he said no to, and then that he wax the board to make it faster. Which he did, after double and triple checking with me that I really wanted him to. This time I got 76 as well and did a fist pump of ...

... d learned. Then we piled back up in the truck and bounced our way back to Shangani.



Our campsite that night was a bushcamp, fitting, and after we set up our tents we climbed up the gorgeous rocks to watch the sunset and take pictures of the weird shapes formed by the rocks, launching off one to the other and jumping off high places into the soft sand below. It had been a good day and for many their favorite.

... off in Cape Town then to amuse the morning we started at Cape Point (again for me) to get a group shot and then visit the penguins at The Boulders (again) and it was raining (again), haha. I think it was good we started with some bad weather though because then you get good weather and appreciate it that much more. We went back to Cape Town to grab lunch when 'M' and I did an Amazing Race to get money, lunch and jumpers in an hour (fun but rushed ...

... to the next level up with a basic 2 or 2 bedroom house. Unreal as only a few kilometres by the beach are houses shut up as the owners are absent. My final blog will be titled something like - Africa, a Continent of Contrast. Off to quad biking now but the 10 km walk this morning along the coast in the cool sea fog air and houses was a contrast to yesterday's Township Tour seeing how 2/3 of the city 48,000 live and that was done in a hot desert east wind.

... For example, when the bushmen hunted for food, they would often eat the eyes of the killed animal first because they contain the most water, which in the desert, is quite a hot commodity. The bushmen also had quite flexible stomachs, as they could consume as much as 10 kilograms of meat in one sitting (no sense giving it up for wild animals, I suppose). The Bushmen have not been found in the deserts of ...

... renowned as an adrenaline capital, we decided to go sandboarding this morning. It was actually lots of fun, really similar to snowboarding, just a lot slower. You have to wax your board before every run, and you can feel it slowing down as you get towards the bottom of the dune. The walking up is a great workout too...so we only got a few runs in. They also had a little wooden jump set up, so we had a bit of fun going off that for awhile too. One of the guys found ...

... the lie down boarders for a run down the steepest slope, the Dizzie Lizzie. They had on knee and elbow pads and gloves, where we had no protection...apparently we were suppose to be the tough ones cause we could standup. We didn't see this as the case when we watched the experienced boarders fly down the hill with their faces mm's from the sand and catch some air on the jump at the bottom before it was our turn. It involved lying face first on a piece of plywood ...