Well I can't quite believe I only have a couple of weeks left now - literally 2 weeks today and I'll be back in the UK. It's been totally amazing with so many different adventures and loads of photos to bore everyone senseless with! Well I'm now in Plettenberg bay at the end of my second volunteer project - so very different from the first. This time it has been with an organisation called Orca - a whale and dolphin project, we have been out on the boats a number of time and spotted many humback and southern right whales, humpback [View Full Entry]

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I've travelled along the southern coast of South Africa to join a lovely group of people and here I am diving with the sharks and falling in love with them. Here are just a few pics to give you a flavour but I will add more as soon as I can. Love to all! Bex [View Full Entry]

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28/01/09 - Today we decided to back-track to Plettenberg Bay as there were a couple of things we wanted to see - Tenikwa cats and Monkeyland. Both were great. The Tenikwa cats is a conservaton park which looks after wild African cats. You can walk right into their areas with a guide and even touch some. They were gorgeous! Monkey Land is a huge forest area where monkeys live in safety. A guide takes you for a walk through the forest and the monkeys are swinging through the trees all around you. Some even walk on the paths and you can [View Full Entry]

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From Addo Elephant National Park we travelled to Plettenberg Bay (Plett). It’s a much shorter stretch than any of the other road journeys so we stopped at a few places along the way. We stopped at the Bloukrans Bridge. The bridge is the highest bridge in Africa and the Southern hemisphere (height 216m). It is also the highest commercial bungee jump in the world! Only one of us was brave enough to do it -and hell no, it wasn’t me. Our next stop was Natures Valley at the mouth of the Groot River. It is beautiful! I was disappointed that we [View Full Entry]

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Our first stop from Cape Town was Plettenberg Bay. We hopped on the Baz Bus, which is a backpacker’s bus that you can hop-on and hop-off all the way along the coast right up through Swaziland and up to Johannesburg. Our first journey to “Plett” started at 8am and was going to take around ten hours. We were dreading it the night before but in next to no time we were over half way and having lunch in George, about three hours from Plett. We met loads of people, one girl from Norway who could speak a multitude of languages and [View Full Entry]

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Well it wasn’t my first Caprese of the holiday last night, but I did opt for the mozzarella salad to start! Dinner was nice and again amazingly cheap (about £20 for 2 courses each and drinks) and afterwards we went to see the Xmas lights in George (strange to see Santa in a boat!) and then had an unsuccessful search for an internet cafe to put on yesterdays blog - George does not appear to have joined the internet revolution as the hotel had no access nor did any cafes or bars! We then headed back and put on the Santa [View Full Entry]

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Today I spent in Plettenberg Bay. The hostel was very nice - very clean and super comfy beds. But I didn't sleep in; I was up and off early. It was about a 15 minute walk down to the water, to Central Beach. As soon as I turned a corner and could see the shore, I literally spoke aloud to myself "No way!" - because it was so beautiful. (Traveling alone, I frequently find myself speaking aloud to no one!) The beach itself was almost empty, so quiet. But I found Dolphin Adventures, the sea kayak company I'd decided to do [View Full Entry]

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Little Monkeys We woke up to a fantastic if slightly overcast view of a forest with mountains behind it. We eventually wandered off to breakfast which was definitely a contender for knocking our Jo’burg breakfasts off their throne. Hog Hollow is a fantastic place to stay, the main house is filled with African artefacts and wooden furniture all housed in orange, brown and black tones. Our room is in a separate building of three apartments all with a downstairs deck with hammock and comfy chairs and the fab view. It was very tempting to sit on the deck for the rest [View Full Entry]

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Leaving Kwa Madwala The bleep of Annabel’s wristwatch alarm heralded the start of a gruelling day of travelling: we rose and packed promptly and loaded our stuff into the game vehicle where it waited until we had finished breakfast and checked out. Manyatta rock camp was a beautiful place with friendly staff, and we were sad to leave when the transfer car arrived. Today was still not a money-back day though - armies of impala still bade farewell as we left the park and travelled to Nelspruit airport. Check-in and boarding were straightforward, and the flight on the SAA&rsq [View Full Entry]

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July 18, 2008 PLETTENBERG BAY, S.A. Our adventures in South Africa continued today with a drive from Oudtshoorn to Plettenberg bay on the Indian Ocean coast of southern South Africa. This was an easy day on the road passing from the Ostrich farms and sheep and goats ( Mohair Goats ) farms through the mountains and back to the coast on a beautiful road through the mountain passes. We enjoyed some interesting discussions, with our very knowledgeable tour guide, about the history of South Africa and some of the trials and tribulations the people have gone through for the past few [View Full Entry]

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