Tag: South Africa
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Thursday 20 April 2006 Highlights: Hout Bay, African Penguins, Table Top Mountain On our last full day together we headed off to Hout Bay and ended up walking up to a lighthouse that was so high it didn’t really save many ships (I think 20 odd crashed nearby). Jacko & Marjia both run down…
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Wednesday 19 April 2006 Highlights: Sand Dune fun, Cape Point (meeting point for Indian & Atlantic Oceans) We started the day with lots of fun on the sand dunes in De Hoop Nature Reserve. This only proved that some of us are still big kids. I even run down the dunes at one…
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Tuesday 18 April 2006 Highlights: Exploring Knysna Bay by boat So people had to recover from their drinking sessions last night, we finished off last night designing our tour shirts, which we picked up later in the day (very good if I do say so myself). We again visited the town of Knysna but this…
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Monday 17 April 2006 Highlights: I did a crazy Bungee Jump!!! Well today I proved I could jump to my death by leaping (or falling) from a bridge 216 metres of the ground. On a very wet day we headed out for a chance to jump. Chickening out we all thought it was…
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Sunday 16 April 2006 Highlights: Graaff-Reinet Town Visit, the magnificent Outeniqua Mountains Today we set off for Knysna. Our first stopped off at Graaff-Reinet to see a local Africana Museum. Inge & Marjia both commented on how ugly the women appeared to be in the photos. Graaff-Reinet is one of the oldest town…
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Saturday 15 April 2006 Highlights: Two hour hike in Karoo At our Karoo farm stay they have lots of the wildlife roaming around with very few fences. We then we went on a brief 2 hour hike around the Karoo farm. The landscape is stunning; it’s hard to believe that it has snowed in…
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Friday 14 April 2006. Highlights: Helen Martins Owl House We had a very long drive to Karoo today but that meant a chance to see the amazing landscape. Most notable event today was visiting the “Owl House”. Helen Martins created these figures in her house after living a very lonely life, kind of creepy…
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Thursday 13 April 2006 Highlights: Bushman paintings Walking most of the way to our truck (the 4X4 picked us up near the end) was probably a good way to recover from the hike from yesterday. The major thing today was seeing Bushman paintings at Ladyband and putting some of our group in jail at the…
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Wednesday 12 April 2006 Highlights: Seven hour nature hike, exploring bushman caves Some people on the tour really enjoyed the fireplaces in the rooms last night; I think some wood was missing from outside my room reflecting how keen people were to keep their fires going. Today was all about the 7 hour nature hike.…
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Tuesday 11 April 2006 Highlights: 4WD drive to our remote accommodation Unfortunately no dolphins decided to say good morning to our group. This it might have been the result of a drunken party in the area 🙂 We headed off to Durban for a quick stop. I spend most of our time here with…
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