Natal Spa KwaZulu-Natal

... and saw one eating. It's mouth is around four feet wide and it eats only plankton and small fish. A scary moment was when the current shifted and started to push me in front of it's mouth as it was eating. Even though I knew that it didn't eat people I had a moment of panic when I thought what if I drifted in front of it's mouth? Would it want to taste a little piece of Mike just out of curiosity? It didn't happen and I was completely safe even if it did ...

... only a couple of pounds to get in. I have to say my hopes for seeing anything weren't high but it was great. We started seeing lots of antelope and deer type animals (I have to say my knowledge is limited and I am determined to find out which species I saw). Then we saw some warthogs and their babies, monkeys also with babies, zebra strolling across the road, more hippos and crocodiles and then the piece de resistence 2 big black rhinos only a few feet from our car! Absolutely ...

Happy Halloween! Instead of celebrating Halloween Nikki and I were the special guests in her mom's 3rd grade classroom. The students are currently studying Native Americans, therefore it was exciting to have an American guest. We came in for the art lesson and had the students make Tipi's, totem poll drawings, and feather hand-bands that displayed the Native ...

When we arrived in J'burg we had no real travel plan or route for South Africa, just knew we wanted to head towards Cape Town. This turned out to be good as we were open to destinations that were recommended to us by other travelers etc. We looked at the route the Baz Bus takes and decided to go to Northern Drakensberg to brake up the bus trip. We didn't know where it was and what you could do there, just randomly picked it. We laughed ...

Today we headed towards the Drakensberg mountains and a luxury tented lodge to be shared with a family of baboons. This was wild 'luxury' camping at its best!! The following two days were to comprise of team football, walking in the mountains and a trip to the ...

My Safara was absolutely amazing. We saw 4 of the Big 5, minus the leopard which I could care less about. I saw the elephants and so my life is complete. We have a photo of 3 of the 5 together by one brook. Our guide asked us to send it to him because that's never happend. It was an Elephant bull, 2 white Rhinos and a lioness. Amazing. I'm glad I didn't get malaria or sunburn so I'd say my trip was an absolute success!

It's the beginning of the evening of the second day of our brilliantly planned holiday! We arrived at 1:15 am this morning and were completely knackered - would that stop us from having fun? No, obviously sleep was the first thing on our mind but unfortunately the last thing we did! ... Sleeping was just an impossibility with Andrew singing and immitating his parot with the new ...

... acquainted. Sorry mom, I forgot to tell Dad last night when I called. All in all it was fun but not as much of a thrill as I had expected / hoped. I guess jumping tandem you have the somewhat secure feeling of being attached to something else (in this case an expert diver) so the very feeling of being "restrained" is like a child's security blanket. Whereas with bungee you're pretty much just hanging out there in the wind. Ok, that was a big nut shell. Durban has ...

... night was difficult. I had a "farewell" party with my girls in Phase 4 (the house where I worked every evening),and spent a lot of time with them saying goodbye-it was so hard to leave that night. I was doing all right until one of my older girls came into the bedroom where I was and began to sing me a personalized "goodbye/thank you" song. Her voice is so beautiful and it brought tears to my eyes. Before I knew it-we had a nice cry fest going on, and it became harder and ...

... by the resort on one of the Basutu Ponies. He seemed absolutely content on his horse during their 45 min jaunt around the resort. After brunch it would be another day down by the river. Today the water was extremely cold. It was so cold in fact that jumping in literally took your breath away. Somewhat of a welcome relief to the 30 deg heat being experienced on dry land. I imagine it would be extremely ...