April 24, 2005
Diving Aliwal Shoal
Umkomaas, South Africa Tuesday - Saturday, April 19 - 23, 2005: Raggies and Swiss-eating Fish Among other things, Aliwal Shoal is famous for large schools of ragged-toothed sharks (www.elasmodiver.com/Sandtiger%20shark.htm) and sightings of massive potato cod/groupers (www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/16422/cat/508/page/5). During a total of...Read this update
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Umkomaas
Umkomaas, South Africa Tuesday - Sunday, April 19 - 24, 2005: Umkomaas had very little in store for me. It was boring. Really boring. Excrutiatingly, painfully, disgustingly, dishearteningly, maddeningly and woefully boring. Were it not for the high quality of...Read this update
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April 18, 2005
South of Durban
Warner Beach , South Africa Sunday - Monday, April 17 - 18, 2005: I finally flew from Cape Town to Durban on Sunday the 17th. The flight with Kulula Airlines (this time minus the cows all over the airplane) was...Read this update
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April 16, 2005
Escape from the Cape
Cape Town, South Africa Friday, April 8, through Saturday, April 16 (More or less...), 2005: My last week or so in Cape Town wasn't quite the thrill that the sky diving experience provided. In fact, it was fairly low-key and...Read this update
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April 07, 2005
Skydiving for Bacon
Cape Town, South Africa Thursday, April 7, 2005: Introduction: The Birth of Stupid Ideas There are all kinds of things I once told myself I would never attempt in my lifetime, no matter what the case, end of story, period....Read this update
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April 04, 2005
Rage Against the Machine
Cape Town, South Africa Monday, April 4, 2005: I came back from shark diving to find that my replacement Citibank ATM card had finally arrived at my hotel, courtesy of prompt and expensive express mailing by my parents. As I...Read this update
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Bite Me
Gansbaai, South Africa Monday, April 4, 2005: Carcharodon carcaharias... The Great White Shark... An apex predator capable of giving me the mauling that other sharks have declined to give me thus far(http://blogs.bootsnall.com/joshua/archives/005999.shtml)... Gansbaai, South Africa, is the great white shark...Read this update
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April 03, 2005
Africa Cold
Cape Town, South Africa Sunday, April 3, 2005: I spent the day --- a small portion of it anyway --- diving with a company I will, for the purposes of the blog, call "Scuba Duh." It was "Gavin" from Scuba...Read this update
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April 02, 2005
Scum-Dodging on Long Street
Cape Town, South Africa Saturday, April 2, 2005: I woke up at 4:30 AM because I was scheduled to be picked up at my hotel between 5:00 and 6:00 by a company specializing in a type of tour I will...Read this update
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March 30, 2005
Cable Cars, Lentil Soup and Bart Simpson
Cape Town, South Africa Wednesday, March 30, 2005: I snuck out of the hotel at 7:30 AM, relieved to successfully avoid running into rambling psychotic Robert in the dining room. I took a cab back to the lower cable car...Read this update
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March 29, 2005
Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa Tuesday, March 29, 2005: Since I hadn't had much to eat after a long night awake, I went to grab my breakfast in the dining room of the hotel at about 7:15 AM. Robert, the lodger...Read this update
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March 28, 2005
Cape Drear
Cape Town, South Africa Sunday - Monday, March 27 - 28, 2005: My first two full days in Africa fell on the Sunday and Monday of the long Easter holiday when many shops were closed and the streets of Cape...Read this update
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March 26, 2005
Lows of Travel ("Welcome to Africa")
Johannesburg (Airport) to Cape Town, South Africa Saturday, March 26, 2005: Shortly after sunrise I disembarked from my plane from Brazil and set foot on the African Continent for the first time --- on a runway in Johannesburg International Airport....Read this update
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High Entertainment
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Johannesburg, South Africa Friday - Saturday (morning), March 25 - 26, 2005: I woke up early and spent a gray rainy morning running some last minute errands in Copacabana with Mara graciously accompanying me as...Read this update
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