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OK, so we finally arrived at J-Bay…which was nice. It was a BIG party night here as a previous staff member was returning and we had brought Joseph down with us (he turned into a bit of a celeb). so…MORE drinks!!! (no ma, I’m not drinking too much…its SOCIAL drinking!) we played Pool (badly) too and Fussball (sp?) which we were quite good at….errrr well actually Alaia was pretty good at it 8^(

tried surfing again and went to the Billabong factory shop (again) and bought yet another T shirt (must remember to throw some old T shirts out) a quiet night on the Friday (just for you ma) apart from Alaia who was partying till 4:30 apparently, a quick brekkie and it was on the road again to Hermanus. I brought 2 girls with me this time…Alaia again (as she’s a bit ditsy and her Baz Bus ticket had expired) and another girl from Nottingham: Ruth. A fairly quiet 7 hour drive to Hermanus (mainly cos Alaia slept thru most of it) and we arrived at the Backpackers in time for more drinks at the bar (Coke ma, Coke) a fairly uneventful evening until I went to bed in the dorm: my bed had been taken by someone else, so I took another ‘free bed’…which turned out to be the property of a deaf girl that worked there – so after a fairly mindnumbing conversation between a girl who cant hear and therefore speaks very badly and me who was asleep and I lost: I slept on the couch.

Happily I got he night free for my trouble

Off to Gansbaai to watch GREAT WHITE SHARKS from a cage!…went with Ecoventures on a nice boat about 5 miles off the town. basically they have a cage which they strap to the side of the boat, you jump into it with a wetsuit on and they throw Tuna heads on a float and line out into the water: hopefully the sharks come and try to get a free meal (the tUna…not us!) I was first into the cage and got 2 nice drive-by’s by a smallish shark. I was turfed out of the cage to let someone else see, so spent the next hour or 2 on the ‘flight deck’ taking photos of bigger sharks attacking the bait: some nice shots to load (eventually) I got back into the cage later and got a nice drive-by from a 4m shark (yes, 4m! ….and it was so close its tail fin poked inside the cage

I’m now just outside Cape Town in Gordons Bay sitting in a cafe whilst a garage tries to fix the car’s aircon (which hasnt worked since I got it!) Coincidentally I met up in the cafe with 2 guys I met at Hermanus: Dillon and Tim (from Somerset) they leave for home today after a fairly interesting holiday: they were held up at gun and knifepoint by 3 guys who jumped out of a car in Strand (small place outside CT)…they wuz robbed (to coin a phrase) but apart from a minor cut on a hand, they got away unharmed!…scarey place these cities!

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