On the Road Again

Thursday

After a pleasant if eerie night in our colonial style bed and breakfast reminiscent of the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's 'The Shining' we hooked up with Peter our genial Afrikanner Guide for another tour party of ...just us in a van. We left the underrated in tour books coast city of Port Elizabeth (and any chance of being among the first in Africa to see 'Iron Man' which opens as we left) to do the 4 day drive down inexorably to Cape Town.

The cultivated, lush scenery makes a change from scrub and red earth. Moisture from the sea gets trapped by moutains making the coastal stretch lush ()with semi desert behind it we are to see later)

We saw the worlds highest bungee jump (250+ metres) (too petrified to do it) and had lunch in the coastal forests of Tsitsikamma National Park. We then drove to the picturesque town of Knyssa (like a Canadian lake resort town not that Ive been to Canada) for a cruise on the estuary to the Heads where the Indian Ocean pours in. More and more Amarula to the horror of the Guide.

Nice Seafood for dinner (eat that marlin Francoise) then sleeping at the Fish Eagle Lodge overlooking the water. Any place with a jacquzi I am a fan of. Im really roughing it.

Guide is friendly and has given great suggestions for things to do in Cape Town. Off driving to an ostrich farm today and into more arid areas.

Manfred