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Published: July 24th 2008
View from the Beach House
View from Granny Yda's house in AgulhasWe left Cape Town and headed for Kell's Grans beach house at Cape Agulhas. The Southern Most Tip of Africa. Its an awesome place overlooking the ocean. Would be unreal for summer holidays. Unfortunately we were only there for the night because we had to get on the road to Mossel Bay where we would meet up with Kells other Gran who would take over the baby sitting duties.
Granny Yda took over the driving seat to Mossel Bay because i was driving to slow. Apparently 120km/h is slow here. Quite scary going 150km/h in a 100 zone with a gran behind the wheel. Casually too.
Anyway we made it to Mossel Bay and had lunch with Kells aunt, Jeanne before heading off with Granny #2, Bliss. Bliss took us to her place in Wilderness which is a small town on the beach, bit of a tourist destination for summer holidays. Has a huge lagoon and some good surf breaks in the area. Again though we were only there for the night because the next day we were off to Bliss and Sugar's (Kells grandfather) farm in the Karoo.
The drive was about six hours so we were
Kell @ Agulhas
Kell with the beach house and sunset in background. glad when we finally arrived. Apparently they are putting in a massive Radio Telescope in the area so there was road works everywhere. Oh another interesting thing about the roads over here, if you can fit a person in a car/on a car anywhere thats totally cool. Most workers/labourers ride in the back of trucks/utes with the boss up front in the cab.
Yeah so we finally made the farm and it is huge, with almost no trees, just low growing heath type plants which they call 'the felt'. Anyway they farm sheep here, mainly for meat, which feed on the felt and they have heaps of bores which means plenty of water. The whole farm is on what used to be a lake thousands of years ago, which makes for an interesting landscape.
We hung at the farm for a few days. We just explored and chilled out most of the time. We rode the motorbike and played canasta which Bliss taught us. Took some cool photos, hearded some sheep. Good times.
They have like two coloured families who live on the farm and work for Sugar. Sugar Kell's grandpa not for actual sugar lol. Unfortunately
we didnt get to speak to them much because they only really speak Afrikans. Anyway the farm was cool, the lamb tastes better over here, though seeing a slaughtered sheep hanging to dry from hooks in a tree kinda put me off dinner.
From the farm we headed back to Wilderness. We left a day early so Sugar and I could watch the rugby. Naturally Australia won which was good. South Africans really don't like the Springboks coach. I'll just leave it at that.
The rest of the time in Wilderness was spent checking out the Garden Route. We drove up the coast to Knysna and Plettenberg. Which means nothing to anyone reading this except of course for Kells family. It was nice, but seeing the beach just made us long for Greece.
Anyway now we are back in Cape Town. We spent our last day checking out some museums. A bit of culture. Soon we shall be in the Mediterranean =).
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(aunty) mel & (uncle) chris
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Hi guys - seems you are having an awesome time. We have enjoyed all the photos esp the comments. Sunset looked fantastic! Off to cook a lamb roast.. xx Keep on having fun. PS Hope you rubbed the kaffas noses in last weeks result!!!!!!! (Chris wrote this)