Garden Route - Cape Town to PE Oct 29 to Nov 1

After two days at River Song we made our farewells and drove the 260k to Oudtshoorn where we had booked a night in a B+B. Much to Nikki’s delight the owner had 3 Jack Russell puppies but only 12 days old so they looked like baby rats. The next day we visited an Ostrich farm. Oudtshoorn relies on ostrich farming for much of its income and jobs. Interesting little known facts about ostrich:
- It takes 1.5 hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
- An ostrich will eat one and a half kilos of stones each day (to help grind up it food).
- One ostrich egg is equivalent to 24 hen eggs.
We each rode on the back of an ostrich which was hilarious- it ran off at high speed with us clinging onto its wings for dear life, before we climbed on it they put a hood over its head with only its beak poking out a very funny sight. We then went down some huge limestone caves at Kango.
The following day we drove the world famous Garden Route which follows the sea, small coastal communities interspersed with amazing scenery of forests, hills, backdropped with granite mountains. We stayed a couple of days in Storms River ziplining through the forest canopy in one of the many biomes in that area. The longest single line was 91 metres and over 20m above the ground, we felt like giant birds whizzing through the foliage. We also did 2 hikes one through the forest and the other being a small part of The Otter Trail basically clambering over the rocks close to the crashing waves of the Indian ocean.
We arrived in Port Elizabeth early evening and were delighted to see Elize our good friend from Nakheel and her son Eugene. Again Nikki was very happy to see .....Yes a Jack Russell puppy (Cindy) this time 9 weeks old so lots of cuddly fun. Elize kindly put us up for the night.