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well, Gilly stayed for 2 weeks – we had a ball!

shame was the weather was pretty dodgy (the garden route had 12 inches of rain in 3 days……meaning floods and lots of damage: we stayed at Plettenberg Bay at a beautiful hostel with a near deserted beach which is reputed to be one of the best…it was a fab beach, except it had a massive 20m wide line of driftwood right along its length from the storms!..and a nearby beach which cordons off a salt water lagoon completely disappeared!!! we had some good weather too though (and Gilly managed to burn and peel a bit just to prove it!)

best place we stayed was BuffelsDrift which was an airconditioned TENT with en-suite bathroom right up against a lake, i.e. we had a small deck which actually went out over the water. we also had the best meals: one at CapeTown Fish Market, which is a chain of restaurants…beautiful meals on both occasions that we went there.

basically our route was Cape Town, Bettys Bay, Oudtshoorn J-Bay, PE, Plett Bay, Cape Agulhas, Cape Town again. we went White Shark watching from a boat, safari drive at Buffalosdrift and Addo reserve, beach walking eating, drinking, went to the southernmost point in Africa went to the penguin colony, had a boat trip out of CT on a beautiful catamaran (where the crew did there best to get us drunk on sparkling wine …no idea how much we had…but it was a lot!) climbed Table Mountain….OK we climbed it in a cable car, so what?! ;^) and watched the sunset at Signal hill in CT

a great trip…just too short a time with Gilly!

Tags: cape town, chuggy, Travel

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