We are now in Cape Town and it does feel strange after spending two weeks under canvas and sitting around a camp fire. I now realise I smell of smoke and probably look quite grubby.
Since the last entry we have been busy! We spent the 10th of July in Addo Elephant Park where we went on an afternoon safari in an open topped truck. It was really cold, so far in Africa it has been very cold at night with clear bright skies and the odd frosty morning. In the Drakensburg Mountains the washing up bowl had a thin layer of ice too. Anyway in the elephant park we were treated to kudu, red heart beest and buffalo to name some. The buffalo were enjoying a mud bath in a water hole. We also saw three lions sitting at the side of the road, a mum and her two cubs. They didn't seem to mind the safari vehicles turning up and all these human beings staring at them. Not to be outdone we spotted or almost bumped into a family of elephants. Very cool. They are amazing animals and really intelligent. I don't know how else to describe them apart from amazing. I need more superlatives!
After the park we headed to Tsitsikamma and went on a zipline canopy tour, to get a monkeys eye view of the world up amongst the tree tops and have some fun too. The longest zipline was ninety one metres and very fast. Fast enough to put a big smile of your face.
We camped by the beach and spent a day bushwalking, just Bec and I. We spotted heaps of wild life including a pod of dolphins, some otters, a bush buck (another sort of antelope), a group of noisy brightly coloured parrots and lots of migrating southern bright whales. One of the whales even hoisted its massive tail out of the water for us. Here's the trivia for the day, the whales on average grow to fourteen metres and weight an impressive fourty four tonnes.
Africa is so stuffed full of animals all you have to do is look.
Then we moved onto Wilderness National Park and hired a kayak for a paddle. We gently made our way up stream spotting malachite king fishers and a couple of huge schools of fish (mullet we think). The schools were so large that the river turned from clear to black. Really cool.
Yesterday we did a bit of caving, albeit a little tame, but good fun and today we tasted a drop of wine and headed for a cloudy and damp Cape Town.
That'll do for the moment, before you all get bored and never read again.
