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Couple of pieces of advice about Lamberts Bay.
First, if you want to take a photo of a gannet flying overhead it helps to have a free day, bags of patience, at least a 2GB memory card and no sense of smell (the latter because the guano generated by 23,000 fish eating gannets is a little intoxicating, nothing to do with Angela this time).
Second, don't have the shrimp cocktail at Isabella's harbourside restaurant.
Not being aware of the second piece of advice until it was too late, we had an extra day to take gannet photos at Lamberts Bay as I recovered from a bout of chronic diarrhea. The other plus is that my waistline is the best it's looked since I was 16!
We are now the only people camping at the 250 pitch Lamberts Bay caravan park, the Afrikaans families that pitched tent and unloaded 5 kids on top of us early Saturday morning have mercifully gone back to work. Whilst we hate sites that are full there is also something unnerving about sites that are empty, as though everyone else has heard that a hurricane is approaching!
Apart from my bout of food poisoning we have been illness free on this trip, no doubt all due to the healthy outdoor living and not paying UK taxes anymore.
Talking of which I'm waiting for some money back from the UK Inland Revenue, it has taken them from June 06 to now to respond, requesting more information! If anyone we know has a UK tax inspector within their circle of friends, feel free to slap them around the back of the head with my compliments.
On a sombre note we were saddened to hear of the death of David Rattray, a world renowned expert on Zulu culture and the Anglo Zulu war. He was shot dead by intruders at his lodge near Rorkes Drift, Kwa Zulu Natal on Saturday morning in what appears to be a deliberate killing, not a robbery.
We had the pleasure of spending a day with David at the Isandlwana battlefield a few years ago and his vivid oratory brought that event to life and moved us all to tears. We also saw him speak on the same subject at the Royal Geographical Society the year after.
It is another senseless death in a country where killing people seems second nature to some, where life is not just cheap, it actually has no value at all.
We are driving 400km up the road to Springbok tomorrow, then perhaps Alexander Bay on the diamond coast, then up to the Namibian border.
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