We spent the night in Seward, as this was where we were to start or cruise from.. The day before the cruise we had some free time to go to the Seward Aquarium...it does not match Cape Town's Two Ocean's Aquarium! But we did meet a cute seal, everytime we put our hand on the glass he would stop and rub his chin more or less where our hand was before he zoomed off again! That was SO sweet! We also saw a bird which I though was extinct -a Puffin! They are so funny looking! We had amazing weather up untill we got to Seward, suddenly it was misty and overcast but we could still see that Seward was a very pretty little coastal town. With our bags packed and all ready to go we ... read more

I can't write too much today..I am sitting next to the Library's bin as it's the only place in Skagway that offers wifi! Anyway...here is some pics of Homer.... Homer has a Spit.. now I did not know what that was until we drove on it.. like a little bit of land that stretches out into the Kachemak bay, it is also home to Homer harbor...and plenty of little touristy shops and restaurants. A large part of it reserved for RV's, where they can stop a night or few before travelling on. Homer is so so so pretty! It's surrounded by 5 glaciers and 3 or 4 volcanos! It really is breathtaking! We took a little boat out to Seldovia, a tiny little hidden town only accessable by seaplane or boat. About 250 people live there! ... read more

Walking on Alaska's largest accessible glacier! Wow breathtaking! The Matanuska is a stunning valley glacier 24 miles (38.62Km) long and 4 miles (6.43Km) wide and descends 12 000ft (3.65Km) to the end. It wasn't as cold as we expected it to be- thankfully! It also turned out to be THE perfect day to go out on the glacier as the days before and after it was either cloudy,rainy or foggy and in either of these cases they close access to the glacier. We looked a little "unprepared" in our "town" clothes! Crocks and jeans! compared to all the other serious walkers with helmets and ice spike shoes! They were SO geared up in ice-wear that they couldn't even move and here we came along and casually walked around on top of the glacier! It's a magnificent ... read more

Wow, now that was a lot of flying! Cape Town to Dubai, Dubai to Seattle, Seattle to Anchorage. So now I can enjoy having my feet on the ground for a while. It's taking us a little longer this time to adjust to the time change - Anchorage is 10 hours behind South Africa and we are all still recovering from the flu- so things are a little fuzzy when I try and remember what exactly we did the first few days..haha, but I'll try and fill the gaps with some pictures.. The weather is very pleasant at the momemnt, eventhough we had our scarves and coats on, the locals were in strappy tops and shorts! It starts getting light at about 4:30am and dark at about 11:30pm- very long days! it's weird trying to go ... read more

We took a drive up to Springbok with Grant and Revouna, they went to visit her family and we drove another 150km to Port Nolloth to visit my Dad and Wanda at Macdougalls's Bay, I can almost say where our love for camping started 4 years earlier. This was our first stopover on our way to Richtersveld in 2007... We had a good laugh and really enjoyed visiting with them there. The accomodation is very basic and we should rather have camped but it was a short visit so we could stick it out for two nights! anyway...here are a few pics... ... read more