Cape St Francis, South Africa - 22nd August 2008
By: Vicki
Time to say farewell to Fish River Sun and Port Alfred and move on.... we will miss you, what a lovely stay.
Some of the TV's were mumbling and grumbling about all the travelling in the car. Vicki told them to stop copmplaining, 'South Africa is a big country guys, if you want to see the places, you have to travel the distances!' That's what she said, and it seems her children know the drill, they said nothing! Anyway today's travelling wasn't too bad, only about 250kms! We stopped along the way and bought pineapples, they were huge!
Twelve pineapples for R15! Now that's a bargain! Vicki's Mom was excited, she loves pineapples.
Another stop in Port Elizabeth to visit the small oceanarium they have there. A bit disappointing but the dolphins were very friendly, they wanted to play with the ball all the time. Vicki says the Ushaka Marine World in Durban is much better to visit. Maybe I'll get to see it some day?? Vicki's Mom lives in Durban.
And pengiuns...
Back on the road again, not far to Cape St Francis.
Hooray! The end of the road for today....
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 8:13 am Last edited Sep 10, 2008, 6:55 am by Vicki
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Jeffreys Bay, South Africa - 24th August 2008
By: Vicki
Off to Jeffreys Bay, one of the famous surfing sights of the world!! Only the weather is a bit miserable and there don't seem to be too many waves to talk of. Not a surfer in sight! This beach must be sooo busy at Christmas time, when all the schools are on holiday and the weather is warm!
We had coffee and walked around the shops. There are ladies who make figurines from the shells to make money.
Jeffreys Bay is about 15 km from the St Francis area. St Francis Bay, Port St Francis and Cape St Francis all make up the greater St Francis area. We are staying at Port St Francis, in a place called Anchorage, it's real pretty!
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 8:22 am Last edited Sep 10, 2008, 6:58 am by Vicki
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Cape St Francis, South Africa - 26th August 2008
By: Vicki
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 8:30 am Last edited Sep 10, 2008, 7:02 am by Vicki
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Cape St Francis, South Africa - 28th August 2008
By: Vicki
Our last day at St Francis, aaaaahhh! We were having a fantastic time. Relaxing on the beach (they had a pool here too but it was not heated, so nobody volunteered to brave the water, brrr!), taking walks, taking afternoon naps (hmmm!), playing cards and games, etc.
With Vicki around, we had to get some sight seeing done too! She found out that we missed visiting a lighthouse in Port Elizabeth (when we went to the oceanarium), and was most upset!
SO we decided to visit the Seal Point lighthouse one more time, at night time to see what it looked like in the dark!!
Really beautiful!
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 8:34 am Last edited Sep 10, 2008, 7:06 am by Vicki
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George, South Africa - 29th August 2008
By: Vicki
We packed our bags and back into the car ( some quiet mumbling that Vicki didn't hear...), we drove back along the Garden Route to George. Luckily we stopped along the way to stretch our legs and see the sights!
First stop was the famous Bloukrans Bridge, apparently the world's highest Bungy Jump!! Not for me thank you! But Holiday Harry was keen. Vicki said that there was an age restriction, you have to be over 18. Thank goodness, because Juanita was dying to go and Vicki's Mom said if she was 20 years younger she would have done it too!! Poor Vicki!!
We watched a few people jump and my stomach jumped too!! It was exciting to watch though.
We drove through the Tsitsikamma Forest and the next stop was Plettenberg Bay. Vicki drove us to Robberg Beach, (she knows the area well because her family used to come to the Beacon Isle Hotel for holidays when she was young), and there we saw a whale!! In the shallow waters rolling around and playing, flicking it's tale. Not easy to get a photo of though! I have been so lucky to see different kinds of South African wild life.
In the car for the last stretch, the TV's remembered not to grumble!! Australian distances are also great, so it didn't bother me much.
We drove past George onto Mosselbay. I was confused, weren't we going to George?? Another very picturesque town. Vicki decided since it was only 40kms from George, we should get to see it too!
And then we discovered why Vicki thought it was a good idea to see Mosselbay.....
ANOTHER LIGHTHOUSE!!!
That makes it three in one holiday!! And Vicki reminded us it could have been four if we hadn't missed Cape Recife in Port Elizabeth! Juanita said she wasn't getting out the car!! She missed out, it was very pretty. Unfortunately (or fortunately!?) we arrived too late and the lighthouse keeper had already locked up.
We did get to walk around a bit, more beautiful vistas...
There were Rock dassies everywhere. They lived in the rocks around the lighthouse. No bunnies??
Back home in George, we had supper and prepared for the journey back to Johannesburg on Saturday. Vicki was not keen to go back to the 'rat race', she was happy to keep on driving, looking for more lighthouses.... nobody commented!
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 8:48 am Last edited Sep 10, 2008, 7:08 am by Vicki
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Randburg, South Africa - 31st August 2008
By: Vicki
Spring has sprung in Johannesburg!
Mrs C came to fetch Gilbert and we all hid in the Brunsfelsia that is growing outside Vicki's front door. It smells beautiful! Can you see all eight of us?
We posed for a farewell photo.
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 9:06 am Last edited Sep 10, 2008, 7:42 am by Vicki
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Randburg , South Africa - 4th September 2008
By: Vicki
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 9:50 am Last edited Sep 10, 2008, 7:43 am by Vicki
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Randburg, South Africa - 12th September 2008
By: Vicki
Time to say goodbye to Purple Bun and Sputnik.... we will miss them, we have made good friends.
Here I am with the South African flag!
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Posted Sep 19, 2008, 10:42 am
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Randburg, South Africa - 16th September 2008
By: Vicki
Time to say farewell to Grape Ape and send him off to his next adventure.
Enjoy and take care...
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Posted Sep 19, 2008, 10:53 am
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Delmas, South Africa - 24th September 2008
By: Vicki
Today was a public holiday. It was Heritage day and we were all invited to a 'braai' (or South African barbeque) at Ken's (Vicki's husband) friend's farm in Delmas, which was 90km away!!
We took the highway, there are roadworks because they are busy upgrading for the soccer in 2010.
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Posted Oct 19, 2008, 6:27 pm
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Delmas, South Africa - 24th September 2008
By: Vicki
Now we can continue with the update...
We travelled and travelled...
Some of the other TV's were getting bored and impatient and Holiday Harry kept asking... 'Are we there yet?'
This had to be the right off ramp, please?? I couldn't take Holiday Harry's moaning any more!
We finally arrived and what a beautiful garden there was here. I promised not to dig any holes!
Now here is a flag you won't see often anymore. It is the old Rhodesian flag! Ken and all his friends here today are originally from Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe of-course.
We sat and relaxed watching the huge koi fish in this pond.
Collin (the owner of the farm), found some abandoned donkeys and brought them home. He now has them as 'pets'! He complains because they are eating his prize roses though!
Here is the 'braai', everyone enjoyed the boerewors (South African sausages), but I will stick with the veggies thanks.
There were rooibok (red buck) and ostriches and chickens, dogs an cats, birds, donkeys, etc on the farm. Vicki said there were some bunnies too but I didn't see them!
We had a lovely day with too much fresh air, we all dozed off on the way home.
We crossed the border back into Gauteng province.
There are many gold mines in this area, we passed this derilect old mine shaft.
The city of Jozi (nickname for Johanesburg) in the distance.
Finally, the off ramp to get us home...
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