After checking out we drove to Paarl mountain nature reserve. We dropped in to the information office by the braai area and bought a map. We took the lady’s advice and had a short walk around the garden before driving up to the rocks. Ady and I both walked onto the first one and admired…
Today we drove into Stellenbosch and went on the guided walk of the town. That gave us a brief history of the town and explained the standard layout of the Cape Dutch houses. The town also has an irrigation system running through it, which used to power the mills as well as provide all the…
We checked out and met Daisy the miniature daschund who we’d seen over the last couple of days. We then hit the road to Fransschoek. We took the route via the R60 and R43 going over the picturesque Fransschoek pass. In Fransschoek we ate our picnic lunch and then went on the wine tour tram/bus.…
Today we had a lazy day around the pool. It was leftover bolognaise for lunch and boeurwors for tea.
Breakfast was OK, but not as good as others we’ve had. We did have scrambled ostrich egg though. We visited the Safari ostrich farm and went on the short tourist tour. We saw the incubators, learnt about ostrich leather, the feathers, the different types of ostrich and got to feed them. We then went on…
This morning was our last game drive, with another 5:30am wake up call. Once again we saw plenty of birds and buck. We did watch a secretary bird feeding. It was pounding the ground with its feet and then darting its head down to catch the lizards or other small animals. We also saw plenty…
We were up at 5:30am ready for our early morning game drive. We saw much the same as yesterday, but also a young giraffe and a young rhino. We also saw an ostrich chasing away a jackal, velvet monkeys, blesbok and warthog young. We had to reverse away from a grumpy bull elephant. We had…
We had a bit of a lie in this morning at Linda’s. After breakfast we drove to Donkin and had a brief walk around the park overlooking the port. We’d already filled up the car with petrol and picked up some lunch. It only took us about an hour and a half to drive to…
Today we travelled from Wilderness to Port Elizabeth. The only stop we had en route was at Storms River Mouth. There we walked along the short trail to the suspension bridges and went to the Cattle Baron restaurant for lunch. We got to Ady’s cousin Linda’s for about 4pm. We had dinner at hers with…
Today we drove into Wilderness to pick up some picnic lunch and then drove to the start of the half collared kingfisher trail within the Wilderness national park. There were park officials there from whom we bought a permit. We walked up to the waterfall and ate our lunch there along with quite a few…