• Storms river

    March 6 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    We were up at 6:30am and after a couple of coffees we were packing up, and at 9am we were rolling out the gate waving goodbye to our host on the way out.
    We had a 150 mile journey ahead of us and it was all on the N, which started off as a duel carriageway then turned to single lane except for when there was hills and just before the end of the journey it changed back to duel carriageway.
    The thing with South African roads is the carriageway may change but the speed limit doesn’t do even on a single lane carriageway we can travel at 120kph, that’s 75mph in our language but the Lorry’s can only do 80kph which is 50 mph which leads to some crazy overtaking manoeuvres.
    We reached our next camp at 11:30am. Storms River campsite on the tsitsikama shoreline. Ellie has been wanting to get here ever since she saw it in YouTube.
    It is run by sanparks and we realised how good our wildcard is when it should have been £15 each for the 2 of us per day plus our camping fee. We are staying 3 nights and 4 days so it would have been £120 each excluding our camping. We paid nothing for entrance and £11 for camping.
    Unfortunately when we pulled up the sun had disappeared and we had an extremely cold wind blowing in off of the sea. We found a site right in the cliff top with our own private path down to the beach and once we had pitched the caravan we both put jumpers on and then went for a walk to check out the site.
    For the rest of the afternoon we chilled out at camp until 5pm when we lit the Braai and I cooked the perfect steak on the fire. Then we watched the most amazing sunset. Definitely the best of this trip so far before heading to bed.
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