Oxbow Farm Knysna

... me , well I’ll be honest, I could barely lift him out of his watery, concrete Lay-Z-Boy because I was laughing like a wild , spotted hyena. Once out, Billy took off his shirt and went sprinting up the hill towards our apartment. I could barely see through the tears in my eyes.

Another highlight of our Knysna trip was a visit to a Raptor sanctuary where we were allowed to handle various birds of prey like owls and falcons and eagles. We ...

... this. This is not what I expected to see in South Africa - and I was getting really saddened by it. I can only imagine how the Black people who live in them feel.

Not long after my tour of Knysa it was time to get back on the Baz Bus and go to Plettenberg Bay, my next town on the Garden Route. I was confident that there would be more things to do here. Hopefully since this is where I am spending my 40th birthday!

We shall see...

Már megint egy hétfő reggel…

Az úti cél Knysna, egy lagúna partján fekvő nyaralóvároska, aminek a neve egybeforrt az osztrigatenyésztéssel. Látványos sziklakapuk (Knysna Heads) között áramlik be az óceán víze a lagúnába, amely helyenként hajózható mélységű, máshol viszont (apálykor?) száraz lábbal is besétálható. Be is sétáltunk, majd ezután felmentünk a keleti head-re, ahonnan az óceán és a lagúna felé is parádés kilátás égett bele a retin ...

... sávig, azaz a híres Garden Route-ig. A szállásunk a Wilderness nemzeti park melletti Hoekwilben van, a hegyek között, tüdőszanatóriumi levegővel és panorámával, medencével, egy kedves holland tulajdonos házaspárral és két bankárosra hízott kutyájukkal.

Késői ebédre lekocsiztunk Wilderness Village-be, majd (az autópálya alatt!) kisétáltunk a homokfövenyen az óceánhoz, hogy talptesztet csináljunk: tényleg melegebb-e mint az Atlanti. Viszont – l ...

... and said that it was not something that happened frequently – lucky us!

Pleased to say that on Tuesday morning the sky was blue and the wind had dropped a bit. We played golf at St Francis Bay. A private course which we shared with only 3 other groups. We were intrigued to see a picnic table sitting beside the 7th. Fairway. A golf buggy arrived as we finished the hole and coffee and muffins were set out for us! For those at Gleneagles – Jeff ...

... to Canada 30-40 years ago. People think nothing of drinking enormous amounts and getting in the car to drive home. There is just now a campaign to increase awareness about this problem. It seems to need a bit more work though. We were at a restaurant with live music and lots of drinking in Hout Bay and the crowd cheered when the fellow announced that there were no roadblocks tonight - 'yippee, we can tie one on tonight and not have to bother bribing the police ...

... and you could watch all these people surfing. We all had a great time relaxing by the water and it was Sora's first time really in the ocean. We had taken her to the beach quite a few times when we lived out in Seattle but, back then, she was too young to really play on the beach. This time, she was literally rolling around in the sand and was absolutely ...

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 ...

... Gorge. We decided that, rainy or not, we really should go for a walk and so we headed off into the National Park to the Srorms River mouth. After a while of sitting in the car park munching biltong and kidding ourselves that we were actually looking for whales as the rain hammered down on the car, we took the plunge and started out on what turned out to be a fanstastic walk with amazing views of the coastline. And after starting in the rain we finished ...

... matter how **** a place is, it seems the people we're with make or break the place. At the moment we're travelling with a group of three other English lads, and an American girl from Kansas. I think we all helped each other through the Mossel Bay experience but it'll be back to being just Alex, Fletch and I come tommorow when the othetr guys move on. Knysnas a beautiful place all told. It's set in an estuary and our back ...