Hermanus South

I was up at 6:30am but Ellie didn’t join me until 8am. She is really getting the hang of making the day last longer because we are just killing time here.
We left camp at 9:30am heading right out of the gate and further south. Today we were going to Hermanus South, just four miles down the coast.
We arrived just after 10am and found roadside parking right on the cliff top with the sea down below in our right. The tourist area was around 200 meters further along and we walked the cliff top sculpture path keeping an eye out to sea looking for whales and sharks, we didn’t see any.
Our first stop was art alley. A famous little Alley in South Africa known for its art galleries and if you wanted something specific and couldn’t find it here, you weren’t looking hard enough. They had every sort of art imaginable, sculptures, modern art, landscapes, portraits, surreal art and funny art it was a real feast for the eyes.
We continued walking down the Main Street, passing more galleries, jewellery shops and white linen boutiques, this is definitely a white linen town. Everybody seemed to be out for breakfasts and morning coffees. We even heard one old lady say to another “ I had to stop painting and come outside in the sun, it’s just so beautiful today”. They are the kind of people we’re now mixing with.
We walked through an open air tourist market selling normal African tourist rubbish and came to a nice restaurant where we stopped for brunch. It was now 11:50am and yesterday meal had scared us slightly on what to order so Ellie ordered a salad and I ordered a calamari wrap. Both were just right.
After brunch we walked down to the museums and for one ticket we can get into the 3 museums here and the first one is the whale museum. I initially thought it would be about whaling but it wasn’t. It was a fascinating little museum giving us all the facts about the different whales and dolphins that come to the area.
The next museum was the photographic museum which was also fascinating to see the old photos especially of the people in the past rod fishing for sharks but most of the museum had no context and there were just lots of photos.
The third museum was the harbour museum which was basically one very small room that used to be used to store fishing nets in the old harbour that is now full of old fishing and diving gear.
We left Hermanus at 1:30pm and then went to an auto parts store to get a grease gun to grease parts of the car and get a few little bits in the supermarket, we got back to camp at 3:30pm where we semi filled the grease gun and greased the car and braking mechanism on the caravan.
At 4:30pm I lit the Braai and at 6pm we enjoyed a marinated steak with corn on the cob and some feta cheese pasta and then we went for a walk down the memory coastal walk outside of camp. It was getting much cooler now and when we got back to camp we had a cup of tea and then tidied up before heading inside where it was cosy.Читать далее