Now at Warner Beach, nr Durban. What a fantastic few days - I have just completed my PADI Open Water Dive Course and am now a qualified diver! I completed four ocean dives and they were all just amazing! Eight or so of us divers were taken in a speed boat to the Aliwal Shoal. On sveral dives we watched Humpback Whales surfacing and showing their tails and on others we must have been 100m from breaching whales! They were stunning. During the dives, I saw...

The real Africa.... Coffee Bay is situated on the wild coast of Africa, stunning white beaches, high cliffs and constant surf - it is beautiful. It is called the real Africa, because it is still inhabited by tribes (namely the Xhosa tribe) and cheifs, where there are no schools and the tribes live in round mud huts. The men usually head to town to work for the week, whilst the women stay behind work the land and look after the home. We spent several ...

And the adventure continues.... We came to Port Elizabeth to visit the Addo Elephant National Park and go on a township tour. Our Addo tour guide, Vernon, was great - within 10 minutes of being in the park, we bumped into several large wild elephant families. We had very close views of the African elephants (their ears are actually shaped like Africa), including males, females and some baby elephants that were about 1 year old - just like dumbo. The eleph...

Jeffery's Bay is a long stretch of white/golden sand with the breaking waves of the beautiful blue/green Indian Ocean. We arrived at Island Vibe in J'Bay on the 5th after a very sociable trip on the Baz Bus from Wilderness. We ended up meeting Roise and an Australian couple we emt on out first trip from Cape Town to George/Oudtshoorn! On passing through Plattenburg Bay, we also saw Pete and Rudi who were staying with us at the Sunflower Stop in Cape Town - ...

Continuing our attempt to chill out after Cape Town, we proceeded our trip by heading east from Oudtshoorn to Wilderness. We spent a night at Fairy Knowe backpackers, which was idyllic. Situated off a river, Fairy Knowe was set in amongst the mountain river valley, with lots of trees and plants, reminding me very much of an English garden. We spent the evening relaxing and the following day visting the waterfalls. We peacefully canoed up the river, spotting ...