This one is for you Tim

Eleanah and the Whale

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October 26th 2006
We road tripped up to Hermanus - A beautiful town on the coast - to watch the whales that come for 3 months a year to breed. Although you could see them from the beaches, I went out in the canoes "whale chasing". We saw their tails as they dived, saw a mum and a calf swimming and best of all we saw them flip over- really fantastic!! We stayed in a great hostel with a swimming pool and every wa ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Cape Town

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more