Hermanus

We were up at 6:30am and once again it was cloudy because we needed the sun for our solar, intact it looked like it could rain any moment.
I had a shower and then we started packing up and just as we got in the car to set the directions it started raining. We had been so lucky not having to pack up a wet tent.
We set the Sat Nav making sure it stuck to the major roads and we had a 140 mile pretty mundane trip to get down to the coast.
We arrived in Hermanus at 11:30am and checked in at the Onrus Municipal camp site right on the beach. We only wanted to stay for 3 nights but we found out when we got here that the upcoming weekend is a public holiday and they only had 2 places left. The lady at reception gave us the choice of looking at the pitches before we settled and we chose the biggest one and then went back and paid to stay until next Monday. We would be here for a week but this seems a good base to visit bettys bay and parts of Cape Town. This is the furthest south we will be, we are almost on the southern tip of Africa which is just a few miles away and only 9 days from leaving the country, and this is now our penultimate camp.
I checked the weather and it said heavy rain for the upcoming weekend in 5 days, which of course could change, but to be sure we were completely safe and watertight we pitched up with the sun tarp over the caravan and I put in the heavy duty pegs and made what is now known as Fort Hermanus. We were ready for anything.
As soon as we had finished pitching we headed back out to the superspar 5 miles away and stocked up on food, then we headed into another mall on the way back home to pick up some cheap crocs and some sandels for Ellie.
Back at camp it was now 4:30pm and I lit the Braai and we had Wors and Mashed potato. Then after washing up we went for a walk along the memory walk by the beach just outside of camp, it is lined with memory stones of people that loved to be by the sea. Then we sat outside until it got dark and then headed indoors to watch the tv.Read more