Blogs from Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 2

Riversdale to Oudtshoorn (179 km or 111 miles)—Sunday, March 2nd on a clear blue sky day. On the road by 8:00 this morning–took rare (most likely only) mileage reading of 63078. Continued back on R-323 and then on the N-2 this morning towards the town of Mosselbaai. Passed huge petrol? factory in the town of Petroport. In Mosselbaai, we turned down to the shore for a tour of the Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex. King John II of Portugal was determined to find a sea route to India via the southern tip of Africa. In 1487, he sent Dias from Lisbon with two caravels of 100 tons each and a larger store ship. Dias sailed down the coast of Africa constantly tacking against a southern wind. Tired of this, Dias sailed into the open ocean and missed ... read more

Day 4 We are up around 6:00. Before breakfast the hotel manager show us around the gardens where they have erected nesting boxes for Eagle Owls (none in residence at the moment). Our next stop is the Featherbed Preserve. We drive to a dock on the Knysna estuary and board a ferry to the preserve. The goal here is to take a nature walk from the top of the promontory to the restaurant below for lunch under the milk wood trees. We pick up walking sticks as the trail is steep, rutted and anything but smooth. It's 2 1/2k and we expect to take two hours. Much of the trail is shaded which is a blessing as the South African sun is intense. Here and there we break out of the thicket to glorious views of ... read more

This little town is quite a nice little stop over but to be honest I stayed for a month doing a great white internship and did little site seeing but I did like the time I spent there all the same. From what I saw this is a lovely little town, lovely shops, places to eat and of course the drinking venues.. For food I would highly recomment Kaai square.. or Kaai2 (sorry can't remember the exact spelling) but its located right next to the marina, right on the ocean front. Best. Food. Ever.... its all home made BBQ meals...and the owner is a character all in himself and sits and gives you great life advice. Unfortunately (or fortuneatly) the only venue I really went out to drink was a place called Flames (its on one ... read more

We are back in klein brak at riverside resort where we started this years travels from,looking back we have had a good year (not the tire) and met a lot of new friends, saw some interesting places and experienced lots of diferent cultures, spending a month in old transky where the bottle stores are all open on sundays but you cant get medicines at a pharmacy after 1 on a saturday, ( who needs medication if the bottle store is open in any case) to living in luxuary in Mauritius, it was all good. Our travels took us from here to Addo then up to east london and on into the transky, from there up the kzn coast up to Richards bay and the all the way back via Bloemfontein Graaff reinet and back to mossel ... read more

Hi all, hope we find you all healthy and happy,all o k on our side, Wanda is much better now after a couple of iron transfusions and we are doing well. We have had some time to reasses our needs and comfort and decided we needed something bigger to live in, buksie was getting a bit small so we decided to go for a caravan again, well we were lucky and got a very nice Jurgens exclusive, nogal and from no one else but our friends Hyde and Rina who we also got buksie from, Rina says things run in threes, but Hyde musnt worry she wont sell him yet. Our little jeep buksietjie isnt to happy towing the van at 2 x its waight so we got hold of a Hyunday terrecan (trash can) 2.9 ... read more