Kloofing!

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Mon 23rd

Today we went Kloofing. Kloofing was walking through the forest with our own guide, Stephen, then walking and climbing over rocks in the river. When the 'safe' rocks ran out we had to swim in the river. The water was cold-ish and supprisingly had no animals in it. We were asked if we wanted to do jumping off rocks but both decided against it (T:It was really really cold and I didn't want to get my hair wet!!).

After lunch we drove to a look out point where you could see that the river made the shape of Africa, but the whole area was covered by mist. We then went on to Plettenburg Bay to try and find somewhere to Scuba-Dive the next day. We'd been phoning scuba places all day but were unable to get through. Success came, at a neighbouring town called Nysner.

The main roads in South Africa are fairly new and well looked after. When approaching roadworks they have staff who wave red flags. There traffic police have radar guns and hide behind trees to catch people. Our little car, a red Polo, was quite new and only just fitted all our luggage in the boot (thanks to T's shape and space skills). Petrol gets filled by an attendent who in one case broke from a game of football on the forecourt to fill up our car.

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Photos

The Incredibles
Cartoon character style outfits!

T + Paul
like whisky - on the rocks

Eyes
T at the pub, showing those all knowing teacher eye's.

Comments

[Stella]

Plet!
I spent a month in Plet! If you visit the elephants sanctury they were my old neighbours so say hello! You can dive from the big hotel in Plet which is what i did, but i heard Knysner is better. Hope you have fun!

[lamlee]

Knysna
Nysner is pronounced that way but spelt Knysna A Kloof is and Afrikaans word meaning valley, but has now been taken into South African English to mean a narrow, steep sided valley, that usually has rock pools along it. (well, thats my interpretation anyway)