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Randburg, South Africa - 10th August 2008
By: Vicki
Today we visited Mrs C to fetch Jubilee Bunny. We were going on holiday and she was coming with us. We all posed for a group photo!
Who would have thought, so many TV's in South Africa!
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George, South Africa - 13th August 2008
By: Vicki
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 10:14 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 7:26 am by Vicki
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Oudtshoorn, South Africa - 14th August 2008
By: Vicki
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 10:25 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 7:35 am by Vicki
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Port Alfred , South Africa - 15th August 2008
By: Vicki
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 10:31 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 7:39 am by Vicki
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Port Alfred, South Africa - 16th August 2008
By: Vicki
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 10:36 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 7:43 am by Vicki
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Port Alfred, South Africa - 18th August 2008
By: Vicki
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 10:51 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 7:46 am by Vicki
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Port Alfred, South Africa - 20th August 2008
By: Vicki
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 10:54 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 7:51 am by Vicki
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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.
Vicki told us all to stop moaning about the driving in the car. '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!
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. Juanita said there is a wonderful water park there, maybe I will get to visit one day??
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, 11:03 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 7:55 am by Vicki
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Jeffreys Bay, South Africa - 25th 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! And I thought I might get a chance to try the waves!!
We had coffee and walked around the shops and then came back to our house which was called Anchorage. 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, it's real pretty!
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 11:12 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 3:39 pm by Vicki
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Cape St Francis, South Africa - 26th August 2008
By: Vicki
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 11:26 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 3:45 pm 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, brrr!), taking walks, taking afternoon naps (yeah!), playing cards, games, pranks,etc. Tee hee!
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! The beam of light can be seen 50km out to see. It won't spot alien ships in the sky!!
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 11:30 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 3:48 pm by Vicki
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George, South Africa - 29th August 2008
By: Vicki
We packed our bags and back into the car (argh! Oops hope Vicki didn't hear that!), 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!! Wow! Wouldn't that be an adrenalin rush!! Holiday Harry was keen too. Vicki said that there was an age restriction, you have to be over 18. What a disappointment, Juanita was also 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!! Wooohoo! It was exciting to watch.
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. Not easy to get a photo of though!
In the car for the last stretch, remembered not to grumble!! 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!! I agreed, before we were volunteered to climb to the top and take photos! Unfortunately (or fortunately!?) we arrived too late and the lighthouse keeper had already locked up.
We did get out and walk around a bit, more beautiful vistas...
There were Rock dassies everywhere. They lived in the rocks around the lighthouse.
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, 11:38 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 3:51 pm by Vicki
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Randburg, South Africa - 31st August 2008
By: Vicki
Spring is here! Everyone is happy! Mrs C was coming to fetch Gilbert so he could spend some time with her before leaving South Africa. We all hid in the Brunsfelsia (my idea!), can you see all eight of us?
We posed for a farewell pic.... Hope to see you again sometime Gilbert!
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 11:44 am Last edited Sep 11, 2008, 10:39 am by Vicki
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Randburg, South Africa - 4th September 2008
By: Vicki
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Posted Sep 8, 2008, 11:54 am Last edited Sep 12, 2008, 4:05 pm by Vicki
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