South Africa | New Years | Swellendam

1 January 2011
St Francis V: Gone Fishing

The Fishermen are still sleeping due to New Years Eve festivities - up late and a delicious egg and rump steak brunch.

2011 Canoeing on the canals

2011 Boating - sun came out for the first time in a few days so took the boat out for some fun.

2011 Flagging - clearly the most important job on the boat (at least according to Paulette).

2011 Skiing - How hard can it be?

2011 Answer: Some. Up, Up, Splash.

Paulette put restrictions on not letting this blog be posted until we had actually finished the day as it may restrict its factual accuracy. Proving her correct the first draft of this post said  'No Fishing Due to Bad Weather', this one says '2011 Gone Fishing'

With a few licorice too many somebody starting looking a bit pale. There were a lot of boats looking on intently as there weren't many bites as Danielle explains "At least when I spew a lot of these people and fish will be happy"

"That's Better", happy to be back on solid ground and showing much more color than the catch. The fish was more suicidal than anything else catching itself before we retired from the 2.4metre swell due to incoming thunderstorm.  

Leaving St Francis Bay for Swellendam today.

Who knows how long it took us. On the way we stopped for some elephant riding, it was great fun. Paulette bonded with her elephant greatly. Dane was trampled. Danielle kept hers while Danie rode his to the farm.

Danielle and Danie went to go bungie jump but both backed out because it was 216m and didn't want to dirty their pants.

******* This post is not factually accurate. The only thing that happened today is we woke up to a great day and am here to say this blog probably won't be updated until the 8th. Enjoy your 2011. ******

St Francis View as flat a farm's dam. 

The real day 14.

Up nice and early at St Francis Bay and off to Knysa Elephant Park.

We have seen lots of elephants, but finally we tame one.

The method of taming.

The actual method of taming was Paulette handing out buckets of love. 

What does the inside of a trunk look like?

What does the back of an elephant ear look like?

What does a self portrait of an elephant look like?

We've seen lots of elephants but we finally got one good picture. This is the only photograph we will bring back from South Africa, so good it looks fake. 

Driving - Paulette was continual complaining that the driver was ruining her view. Today we managed 497km in 6hours. 

One of many pretty beaches along the garden route - Wilderness

We stopped for a closer view. 

Mossel bay was a good stopover for lunch and we climbed amongst the 2ndish of our 8ish lighthouses.

We went past Rivendale which didn't hold true to its name sake, however Heidelburg was almost a replica. 

The roads got wet once we were nearing our destination at Bontebok National Park and what do you know, we found a bontebok.  

Sunset with Cider, Rice, Tree and Sausages. Sorry Kumi but if we had to count the number of sunsets we've had we'd be counting with our toes ... b-e-a-utiful.