Today was a journey day. ...and a long one - 7 hours from Addo to Prince Albert in the Karoo area. The roads here are fast straight and long so they're not very taxing - that is until we reached Oudtshoorn and the road started to rise. Then suddenly the tarmac ran out and we were on a gravel road, much like the Jeerburg Pass the day before. Only this time it got steeper and steeper and the cliff edge more and more sheer - then we realised we were on one of the ...

A very special day today. We saw Elephant yesterday but we were guaranteed to see them today. We were collected from the hotel to be taken on a hair-raising drive to reach the African Elephant Back Safari by Wim - who we later found out was an ex-rally driver! He took us over the Jeerburg Pass - a gravel road that was built to link Port Elizabeth with Jo'burg. It took 5 years to build and was finished in 1850. Well the condition of the road surface was such t...

Today was a travelling day - sad to say goodbye to the Hammock Island Loft on Thesen Islands, but more than happy that 'we're not going home'! The next stage of our holiday involved a trip to Addo and it's elephant park. SatNav lady said three hours - and she was dead right - but we added half an hour with a stop-off in Jeffery's Bay and lunch right on the beach with toes in the ocean, When we arrived at the Woodall Country Hotel Kate had no idea what I'd arr...

Woke to a clear blue sky and the temperature climbing into the early 20's. Our plan today was to join a catamaran trip out beyond the Knysna Heads into the Indian Ocean. So we walked to the waterfront, had breakfast outdoors, again. Tough job...etc. Then we joined the Heads Explorer - 50 foot catamaran - which sailed us out, in a stiff breeze, towards the Heads - a narrow channel opening on to an Indian Ocean with something of a 2 metre swell. Did I mention th...

A bit of a dull start to the day so we decided to take a drive - after a delicious breakfast on the waterfront - to Noetzie Beach. The guy that owns the apartment in which we're staying recommended it, but didn't reveal its secret. Driving there was quite an experience - turning off the main road we were on to a dirt track - and driving through parts of a township! Squalor would not be the word I'd use as the shanty-town corrugated-roof covered 'houses' were scr...