Day 20 - Munster

In a desperate attempt to shrug off the empty house syndrome, no friends, no kids, no family, no Granny Farm and not even Shelly, and the nostalgia of leaving Munster and "Beachway Cottage" possibly for the very last time ever!

At daybreak a last and legendary 'Mini Biathlon'....30min run and 30min swim on Glenmore Beach. We are both trying to shrug Munster but it's just not happening.Last night we went to the 'Munster Ski-Boat Club' for our own farewell drinks. The same crinkled faces from 20 years ago, wearing the same old crinkled denims and 'T's from twenty years ago, the same angling pictures on the same wall, and the same rules of the Angling Club still apply today,as they did then!!! 😳

We know we need to move on, but we just can't do it! Memories long since forgotten, have come flooding right back and the longer we stay, so do those become more vivid. For better or for worse and for richer or poorer, we both love this place, and that it is an indelible and cherished chapter in our lives🥲

Tomorrow (Tuesday 5th April'22) is the start of a real epic phase of our trip. Here, late afternoon on Monday, we have shopped and replenished, packed and tidied up for an early get away. We have also made a call in terms of all the superfluous equipment and unnecessary regalia, extra tents, poles, one of two First Aid Kits, Jockey- wheel and 'Portaloo' etc.etc.etc. Vince offered to take them back home, which we will collect again, on the back end of our trip.

Having spent many fantastic holidays on the 'Transkei Wild- Coast'... and I may well have even been conceived there, (my family from childhood), spent 16 consecutive years 'holidaying' at Coffee Bay on the 'Wild Coast' even before the days of the Transkei becoming a 'TBVC State'😖 In those days we are talking about three weeks at a time!!!

Here in lies a fear for many things but in particular, safety and security, and only because of the unknown. This has been and is, still a seriously rural area of the country. Although the traditional round thatched huts have been replaced by square and rectangular corrugated buildings, there is still (I'm guessing hundreds of thousands of households) without proper water and sanitation, roads and infrastructure systems. Living conditions out here are still poorly rudimentary and basic.

From tomorrow we shall see for ourselves.

In addition to this 'dread' all, even half believable 'Weather Apps' are forecasting massive and widespread storms scheduled for the latter part of the weekend. This could well be an uncalled for, gamechanger! ombined with the poor roads could be epic, especially as we avoid main arteries as much as we can!

Hang in there and watch this space!

Love, Peace and Light,

M&K
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