The Tree

At 3:30pm we were all back up at the house drinking teas and coffees and after that we spent about 30 minutes looking for the eggs that the chickens have been laying somewhere. It’s been 8 days and we still haven’t found any. But I did find the nest of a baboon spider and we pushed a blade of grass down the hole and he grabbed onto the end and I started to pull him up. He didn’t come out but we could see he was huge and when I pushed the blade of grass back down he opened his mouth and we could see his fangs.
At 5pm Pieter suggested we go out for dinner which we thought was a good idea as it would give him a break from cooking and once we had locked up we headed out in Karin as the sun was setting, back down the sandy tracks, through a river and into Sodwana Bay town. Pieter reckoned this place did the second best burgers in South Africa. We didn’t find out what was first.
He took us to a casual looking beach bar and we knew it’s was Petes kind of place when we got there and there was half a Land Rover hanging out of the wall.
Pieter introduced us to a local called Carl on the way in who agreed that Great Britain wasn’t so great anymore and then we were in to a proper quirky, casual feeling, weird beach bar.
We entered through a gate into what we would call the beer garden and straight away there was a colourful painting of some beach surf rolling with a proper surfboard stuck on the bottom. The top of the surf was a actually a real running waterfall and you could step behind it.
Inside the bar on the left was a pool table with some more colourful artwork and immediately opposite was the inside beach bar with real sand on the floor and swings. Out the back were more tables but instead of having chairs they all had toilets to sit on. This is one of the quirkiest bars I’ve been in.
We all had burgers for dinner. Pieter and I had a bacon burger with cheddar cheese and a side of seasoned fries and Ellie had the pulled pork which she thought was just pulled pork but instead it was a burger with pulled pork on top which was tasty but extremely sweet and sickly.
Then at 7pm we headed for home and Pieter called it an early night and just as we were going down he shouted hang on I’ll get the scorpion light and we spent 10 minutes looking for scorpions glowing in the garden. We didn’t see any, so then we went back to the baboon spider who wasn’t out but sitting right at the top of his whole. We could clearly see his fangs and all of his eyes in the torchlight. He looks like something from a horror film.
Then at 7:45pm, because we’re so hardcore and have an early start in the morning it was time for bed.Read more