The Garden Route
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008After a few days relaxing in Cape Town, we decided to rent a car and drive along the southern coast to what’s known as the Garden Route. This is a stretch of nice beach towns between Knysna (pronounced Nice-ah) and Port Elizabeth. So, we got our thrifty rental and set off once again on the ‘wrong’ side of the road… this time with a manual instead of an automatic.
We found an amazing beach house just outside of Plettinburgh Bay. When we arrived, we were its only tenants. The owners had a suite on the second floor, we had a room on the first, and there was a kitchen, living room, and rooftop deck on the third. The view from the deck was magnificent from this well designed and comfortably furnished home. The view was of the bay with its long beaches outstretched in both directions. We had a 60 meter walk to the beach which we took full advantage of. Paula buried me to my chin in sand, we played in water that had some of the best boogie boarding waves I can think of and strolled along the beach as the day wore on. Being nearly the only people on the beach made for a very secluded and romantic feel. We made full use of the kitchen and cooked all of our meals. We had cereal with bananas and fruit on the side for breakfast. We ate tuna sandwhiches with tomato, apples, and cucumber for lunch and made pasta for dinner. We even found some Pillsbury brownie mix and splurged to make a pan of brownies… which we gobbled up quickly!
As we were driving along near our house, we saw a baboon (maybe 100Lbs and less than 5 feet tall) walking along the road. Later we found out that earlier in the day that baboon had sneaked into our next door neighbor’s house to steal apples! What a cheeky monkey!
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