Ebb & Flow Day 3

It was a cold night last night and we were under the duvet and the fluffy blanket to keep warm and e we hen we got up at 6:30am we could see our breath.
By 9am the sun was starting to warm things up peaking over the mountain tops and we got dressed in shorts and t-shirts and then jumped in the car throwing our jumpers in the back just incase it did get cold.
By 10am we had driven 30 minutes down the road, through the beautiful village of wilderness and into the town of George.
We arrived at the Outeniqua Transport Museum just after 10am and the site was huge. We were shown a parking spot next to the other single car that was there and then entered the free museum. It is housed at the old railway yard in George and really is a massive building, it has more steam trains and coal wagons than we have ever seen, they are literally stacked front to back, 8 locomotives deep and three lanes long. It is a transport museum so it wasn’t just trains, there was also a section on flight and shipping but the trains and classic cars were the main attraction and it went right back to horses and carts. They had some of the best preserved horse carts we had ever seen.
All of the classic cars were owned by private individuals who stored them in display at the museum and they had some real classics dating right back to the 1920’s. For a free museum and considering we’re not really into cars or trains it was fascinating and we are glad we went.
By the time we left it was 11:30am and still early in the day so I decided we would drive one of the many mountain passes in the area, the Montague pass but after we had turned off the main road and driven for 3km on dirt roads we came to a road closed sign and a local policeman told us the road had been washed out in a recent flood.
We spun the car around and headed back through town and to a route called the seven passed but once we had reached the beginning of the pass there was another road closed sign. We were gutted.
We had waisted 90 minutes driving around and we still had to go shopping so we went back into George and into a chequers store and got meals for 4 days. Then we went into a clothes shop and Ellie got some dresses.
With the shopping done we made for camp and after a quick lunch decided to head to reception to hire some kayaks but they wouldn’t let us as they want them back by 3pm and it was now 2:45pm so we just ended up having a little walk.
For the rest of the afternoon we stayed at camp feeding the Guinea Fowl bread until they fell asleep under a big tree in the shade and once the sun dropped behind the mountains again it was Braai time. We had pork chops and and mashed potatoes and at 7:30pm with dinner done we went inside for the evening.Les mer