Day 16 Robberg hike by Millen

Our last full day exploring South Africa, was a slow one. In the nroning, dad treated himself to a massage to ease his shoulder pain, whilst we packed up.

Fortuantly for us the weather was very promising, so we took the opportunity to go on a hike. We drove to Robberg national park, a peninsula 10 mins away from our hotel. As we began the hike, we opted for the longer 9 km walk which, as we set off, was filled with other tourists. However, as he walked along, there was less and less people as they peeled off to continue on the shorter distance options.

Although the walk may have been extremely long and tiring, with our water running out, the views and wildlife made up for it. According to dad, there are 2.5 million cape fur seals in the world and 1/3 live here. The bay was a very common place to see great white sharks as the big groups of seal are an almost always guarantee of food, so we kept a look out. The bay is also popular eith surfers, and so we even walked past shark spotters on the lookout.

The beautiful soft blue hues surrounding us created such a lovely stmosphere, which was somewhat spoilt by the foul smell of seal poo. The walk was tricky, as we had to clamber over rocks, often having to cling on to rope which aided us in some of the steep paths. The hardest part was to the final couple of kilometrers when the tide had moved in and the waves crashing on to our paths. Meaning if we had been delayed by roughly half an hour we may not have been able to cross. Despite the tough walk, when we got back in the car with our hands tightly gripping our hot chocs, we all agreed that it was completley worth it.

For our final dinner in SA we went to Barringtons, a busy local resturant. There we even got KFC ( a kimchi fried chicken burger), which was definetly the dish of the night. After we were all stuffed from our generous portions we returned home, and fell asleep yet again to Barack Obama's blue planet.Read more