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Eileen and Tom We are from Red Bank New Jersey USA. We are getting married on May 19 and heading to South Africa on May 20.
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Gosh we have been back from Africa for almost 2 weeks now. It was not a smooth transition, it is exhausting to travel across the world, but I would do it again in a heartbeat. I sort of dropped off the earth here with my entries. Those few blogs earlier were only 2-3-days into the trip. Since then there was so much left out, that maybe I can reminisce now. It's funny, I thought when I did shark diving it would be the last risky thing I would volunteer to do, but I came very close to the bungee jump [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 20th 2007 | 59 Views | [diary=171259]

Tigress
Arathusa
Leopard

The past several days have been unbelievable. The last time we blogged was I believe right before we were about to go shark diving, with great whites the following morning. So I can see how we left everyone reading in such suspense! We did survive (thanks Jess, for concern!) That is a whole adventure to the trip that I will do a separate blog- it will be very detailed, because Oh My God- we were close. Just a little detail for now, it was exciting, adrenaline pumping, and the first time on the water in Africa, to an area in [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 3rd 2007 | 89 Views | [diary=165091]

Mom and baby hippo
Vic falls from our prop plane

Today a day in the life of Tommy and Eileen woke up, this morning at Whale song lodge to go Shark diving. We were booked through our Inn, and arrived at the diving site around 8:00am. We were with people from Australia (Tanzania) and Africa to name a few. Once we took off on our 42 ft shark cage fishing boat called Barracuda, we realized it was a little shadier operation than we anticipated. I don’t discourage anyone from ever trying this experience but, I guess the regulations are very different for tourism/boating in Africa. Anyway, we were barely given instruction [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 27th 2007 | 90 Views | [diary=162739]


Yes it is true. First, today we drove to a small village out of Cape Town it took us about 2 1/2 hours. We were really beginning to like Cape town, but there are so many other areas and territory we are covering in South Africa. Our drive was once again, no memorable, we took tons of pics, and little movies. When we got to our small guest house, on cliff st. you can only imagine how set into cliffs, and so beautiful our surroundings are! This place is called whale song lodge, and the reason is because every year the [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 26th 2007 | 69 Views | [diary=162320]


cape point
cape point
The view from the top
Today Tommy and I took an all day coastal drive along the peninsula all the way to the cape of good hope. Tommy had a blast driving like he was racing and these twists and turns were all along the cliffs, and severe sharp turns. The views were breathtaking, so we stopped just about every few miles. One view was literally more beautiful then the next, until we got closer to the National Park where the cape point is. Before we reached the park, we stopped in at an ostrich farm.. I insisted since now I think Ostrich is amazing, [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 24th 2007 | 92 Views | [diary=161809]

Paloma
cape point

Cape Town
Cape Town
Eileen And Tom with table mountain in the background
We're in Cape Town [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 22nd 2007 | 51 Views | [diary=161616]


After 30 hours of trave we are finally in a hotel and ready to get some rest. Edna arranged for a guide named Jeff to meet us at the Cape Town airport. We rented a car and followed Jeff to our guest house. We'll start doing some serious blogging tomorrow. Right now it is time for sleep. [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 21st 2007 | 45 Views | [diary=160790]


The flight was great and on time. We watched a couple of movies, took a tylanol pm and woke up somewhere over Africa. My college roomate's mother, Edna, met us at the airport. She is our travel agent. We spent some time having coffee in the airport and going over the trip itinerary with her. We couldn't chat too long because we had to catch a flight to Cape Town. [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 21st 2007 | 47 Views | [diary=160789]


Ok.. made it to the airport and returned our car. We got on South Africa Airlines flight to Johannesburg and we're off. [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 20th 2007 | 35 Views | [diary=160788]


We left Manahawking at 11 AM to drive to DC. [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 19th 2007 | 43 Views | [diary=160787]