Thursday April 5th 2012 - at sea
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Friday April 6th 2012 - Durban
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Su's notes in italc font
Hi to all. Have succumbed as usual to the Ship virus but spent a few hours in Durban. An hour or more getting our SA sim cards and then getting them activated. Not something to be attempted alone!
Went into the shopping mall, got thoroughly bored, and came back to the ship.
Saturday April 7th 2012 - At sea
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Last night wonderful electrical storm as good as any fireworks! Ship heeling like a yacht on Port Phillip bay - 82 knot blasts hitting us side on. At last some real weather! Big white waves crashing over our balcony, drinks tables running into walls in dining room
Fabulous stuff! Tonight the same. Not sure how we’ll get down there tonight!
Sunday April 8th 2012 - Port Elizabeth
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Great day in Port Elizabeth. (we hired a six seater taxi and guide - Lester) Two parks and waddya wanna see?
Zebra (Burchell's with the brown stripe through the white stripe starting halfway back) a metre from window of our car,
cheetahs, rhino, ostrich and any number of gazelle, impala, nyala, blesbuck springbok,
bushpigs, lots of bambi’s, wildebeest buffalo, warthogs, meerkat, gnu,
Cape grey mongoose, and as for lions (fun playing with dozy five month old cubs) bengal tigers a bit of a cheat. ?..
We haven’t even started our safaris yet!! Really good parks with natural predators which we didn't see? Jackals and something else. .. Terrific guide we hired away from ship. ...
Tigers, a little bit far from home.....
Monday April 9th 2012 - At Sea
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9th April (hard to type with all the rolling about)
Can't get out on balcony or decks again as soon as we left the shelter of the port. Heaven knows what those little wooden ships went through coming around Cape of Good Hope after what we went through!
No walking today - weather too rough and all the promenade decks were closed. Phewww!!
Tuesday April 10th 2012 - Capetown
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Too crook to do laps today. Just went into the waterfront to book our hotel.
Couple of personal notes -
Talked to Joanne Stew and Nick on Skype this morning, its great to hear the voices!
Toni how's your training going? Keep us up to date with when and where please. We don't know any masters and you'll be a grand one.
Georgia congrats on your band result!! A national second is brilliant!! Glad you're back with the music
You have only just got there and have seen so many animals already!!! Very proud of Georgia and the band. Tiger has been sick but is on anti biotics for two weeks - fingers crossed she improves. Lots of love to you both xox Joanne
ReplyDeleteSu,I had a bit of a momentum: your were talking about taxi and I saw the picture of a zebra... I thought you were coming with a joke :)
ReplyDeleteIt is great to see the pictures along with notes. Rod, you are doing great!
Things are going ok in Pirie. Nick is working long hours and I'm still a overqualified housewife. Its cooling down with average 10 degrees in the morning when I take Nick to work.
Great news! We are just about to book our tickets to Brazil!! but the good part is that because of the price we are actually spending my birthday there which means we can have Xmas together in Kal. I'm so excited.
We got your postcard 3 days ago. Nick told me about the tradition of the message and I need to find his other ones to organise the collection.
Lots of love