The house here is tucked away among huge trees in a national forest area of Tsitsikamma. The area covers the dramatic foamy surges of rocky coast, deep river gorges and ancient hardwood forests.
The road here drops about 1,00ft to the ocean so we go to sleep and wake to the waves rolling in on the shore. Not as many birds as I had expected but there is good cover for them all. A small deer greets us as we unpack. Most exotic of all, there is a troop, several, of baboons, who are regarded as a pest but I can’t wait to see them in the garden all the same. Or the monkeys which are all around, silent as they are. Oh and the fruit bats - Nancy don’t read on!
Our neighbors have kindly offered their home to us when we return (as Trish will have more UK visitors coming this weekend for almost 3 weeks.) So we invite them to join us for dinner and Ted gets the hang of a charcoal fired braai again! Trish supplies the brined sundried tomato chicken on skewers (delicious) and Charles and Anne bring a typical SA farmer sausage, one big link of tasty meat and herbs.
Of course, before that we are off to the beach. It is stinking hot on the sand and we have a nice dip, but not swim, there is a huge surf and undertow here. And a mile of the purest fine sand. And hardly a soul in sight. But no whales or dolphins right now.
To top off our day, there is a full moon but it’s a bit cloudy/hazy and we can’t see all the stars as we should.
Trish is the most wonderful host. She has a laid back attitude to everything (except driving over her precious titanium specs earlier this week!!) and nothing fazes her. Or maybe the fact that a cloud of bats has taken over at night and poo all over the deck by morning. They are eating the blue berries in one of the big tees and processing that on the decks too! Sticky and messy, Trish & Ted go at it every morning before we trek it into the house.
One afternoon a baboon came by to eat the banana we left out there, but normally you don’t feed them or encourage them in any way. He was too fast for me to capture on camera!
The road here drops about 1,00ft to the ocean so we go to sleep and wake to the waves rolling in on the shore. Not as many birds as I had expected but there is good cover for them all. A small deer greets us as we unpack. Most exotic of all, there is a troop, several, of baboons, who are regarded as a pest but I can’t wait to see them in the garden all the same. Or the monkeys which are all around, silent as they are. Oh and the fruit bats - Nancy don’t read on!
Our neighbors have kindly offered their home to us when we return (as Trish will have more UK visitors coming this weekend for almost 3 weeks.) So we invite them to join us for dinner and Ted gets the hang of a charcoal fired braai again! Trish supplies the brined sundried tomato chicken on skewers (delicious) and Charles and Anne bring a typical SA farmer sausage, one big link of tasty meat and herbs.
Of course, before that we are off to the beach. It is stinking hot on the sand and we have a nice dip, but not swim, there is a huge surf and undertow here. And a mile of the purest fine sand. And hardly a soul in sight. But no whales or dolphins right now.
To top off our day, there is a full moon but it’s a bit cloudy/hazy and we can’t see all the stars as we should.
Trish is the most wonderful host. She has a laid back attitude to everything (except driving over her precious titanium specs earlier this week!!) and nothing fazes her. Or maybe the fact that a cloud of bats has taken over at night and poo all over the deck by morning. They are eating the blue berries in one of the big tees and processing that on the decks too! Sticky and messy, Trish & Ted go at it every morning before we trek it into the house.
One afternoon a baboon came by to eat the banana we left out there, but normally you don’t feed them or encourage them in any way. He was too fast for me to capture on camera!
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