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March - April 2023
This is our journey back to South Africa, leaving Durban and travelling along the Elephant coast all the way to Kruger National Park Read more
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  • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
    Day 4

    Mbazwani and the safari truck

    March 27, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ 🌬 24 °C

    Back at Winter dodgers we drank coffees and shared stories around the table for a while and then Pete took us to Mbazwani to get steak for dinner and to a place where Ellie and I could get local sims and data. Mbazwani is the nearest town and Pete took us in the land cruiser safari truck which only has 2 front seats which Pete and Simon took and Ellie and I had to get in the back by climbing up the side and in through one of 3 windows. Then in the back were 2 bench seats one at the front facing the back and one at the very back facing the front.
    Ellie sat in the front one facing me and I sat in the back. Neither seat is bolted down and all the way to Mbazwani is an off road sandy track going over sand dunes. The bench seat with me on it was airborne most of the way there and we even picked up 3 hitchhiking local ladies that got thrown around too and they thought it was great fun.
    The land cruiser didn’t have a name before we got in it but I aptly named it the chuckit bucket, Chucky for short.
    The return journey was exactly the same and by the time we got back to the lodge I felt as though I’d had a real good workout.
    Back at the lodge it took me and Ellie hours to sort our phones out with the sim using a prehistoric text system that I got wrong first time round but managed to sort out once I had download the app, while Pete went and cut ferns off the trees to lay on the new roof he was having built.
    When Pete returned around 2pm he took us next door to his old back packers lodge that has been trashed. This building was his original building that he had running with a business partner and his girlfriend 6 years ago but they kicked Pete out when he was away on a safari and he didn’t want to go back and then the Zulu tribes chased Petes business partner and his girlfriend away and tried to contact Pete but couldn’t, so rather than let someone else pitch up in the business they trashed the whole place. It’s a sorry looking state but Pete is going to start rebuilding soon.    Read more

  • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
    Day 4

    A Sunset Drive across Ezinqeni

    March 27, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ 🌬 23 °C

    Later in the afternoon Ellie and I took a cold shower each and then caught up on our social media and messaged home. Then just as the sun was setting Peiter took us for a sunset drive across the Ezinqeni National park. This is all Zulu land and a protected area where Umgadi Cattle free roam. The Umgadi cattle are the ceremonial cattle of the Zulu tribes and the colours of each cattle mean different things. If a white calf with a black tipped nose and it’s ears are black on the inside is born it must go to the king. Other cattle colours are for funerals, weddings and certain colours might be slaughtered at a wedding depending on wether you want boy children or girls.
    We drove past the cattle and right out to the Ezenqeni lake just as the sun was setting behind us and rain was starting to fall in front and a beautiful rainbow formed over the lake as we watched the birds and hippos. It really was a magical experience.
    Then it was back to the lodge for dinner where Pete cooked his famous fillet steaks with roasted rosemary potatoes. It was the best steak we had, had since leaving Botswana a year ago and nobody can cook a steak like Pete.
    Then with full bellies we headed off for our beds for the evening.    Read more

  • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
    Day 5

    Tembe Elephant Park

    March 28, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    After another hot night, I was up at 6am closely followed by Ellie. I didn’t get a great nights sleep as it was roasting until about 4am until the temperature dropped because of the dew from the ground.
    At 6:30am when we both went up for coffees and breakfast Pieter said he had been freezing all night because the cat had left him and he couldn’t find the spare blankets. He said he thought it was about 10°c but I reckon it was closer to 17°c as I was still in a t shirt and shorts.
    Just as we were having breakfast Ellie suggested we go to Tembe Elephant park and Pieter said he’d be happy with that so he quickly threw some lunch things in a cool box, we all got properly dressed and had a quick breakfast and then we bundled into Karin and left with Pete driving, Simon riding shotgun and Ellie and me in the back.
    The drive took about 90 minutes and we got to Tembe elephant park just after 9am, even after stopping for fuel.
    It was an early start for us all and with our cameras ready we entered the park that had absolutely nobody else in it except for one safari vehicle from a nearby safari camp. Tembe is so close to the Kruger National Park and is so unknown by tourists that nobody goes there and we literally had thousands and thousands of national park all to ourselves. All we had to do now was find the wildlife.
    Straight away we spotted Imyala. The females look a little like roe deer but the males are much darker and hairier and look like a cross between an antelope and a yak. In most parks these are rare but in Tembe there are hundreds and we saw hundreds.
    Our first proper stop was a hide high up level with the treetops and as we entered the only other people in the park from the safari lodge were just leaving and said they hadn’t seen much. So that’s what made what happened next even more special.
    The hide overlooks one of two large fresh watering holes in the park and just as we entered the hide a giraffe came into view and started munching on a tree right in front of us. Then an elephant came out of the forest and started drinking from the watering hole, then another and then another and off to the left in the background just out of camera shot were hundreds of impala’s and Imyalas. It was an amazing experience and felt like something you would see on national geographic.
    We stayed there for a good 30 minutes before heading back out onto the game drive now the only people in the park.
    We spotted more elephants, Zebra, Impala’s, imyalas and hundreds of birds.
    At lunchtime we came to a second hide and Pete got the cool box out and we climbed up to the top overlooking the second watering hole.
    At first there was just a lone elephant with around 20 impala’s dotted around while the elephant drank from the watering hole, but as we started to eat more elephants came out from the jungle and started drinking and then wallowing in the mud holes throwing mud all over themselves and rubbing it into there ears to stop themselves getting burnt. It was like national geographic live while we all watched and ate our lunch.
    We stayed there for the best part of an hour before heading back into Karin and making our way back towards the entrance but 30 minutes in we found our route blocked by a huge bull elephant. He was standing right on the edge of the bend in the road and the closer we got the more he looked like he would charge us by stamping his feet and throwing dust everywhere. Our first plan was to wait but after 10 minutes he wasn’t backing down. Our second plan was to back the car out of sight and wait 10 minutes to see if he moved. He didn’t.
    So our last plan was to go back and see if the road across the marshes was reopened and when we got there we found it blocked by barbed wire.
    Now our only choice was to either wait a few hours or try and get past the elephant. We headed back to the bend in the road and the elephant was still there. Pieter slowed right down and dipped the clutch and revved the engine 4 or 5 times and the elephant stuck his ears right out making himself seem bigger and throwing his trunk and dust all over the place but he didn’t move forward so Pieter moved forward and then the elephant stepped back.
    I knew then what Pieter knew. The elephant had just backed down and as pieter carried on creeping forward the elephant took another step back and then we were so close to the bend that Pieter floored it and around we went. The elephant came forward as soon as we were clear of him, growling and flapping his ears and throwing dust everywhere, but we were clear and safe. Whatever we saw after that seemed pretty tame.    Read more

  • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
    Day 5

    Mozambique & Biltong

    March 28, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    20 minutes later we arrived at a huge lookout tower bordering on the edges of Mozambique where we could climb up and view the whole park with South Africa on one side, Mozambique on another and swaziland on another. It was an incredible viewpoint.
    From there we headed back for the entrance where we found warthogs sitting behind the caution warthogs sign, in which we all took great amusement.
    Back on the road we now needed supplies for dinner and Pieter had promised me Biltong so our next stop was Kosi Bay.
    It took a good 2 hours to get to Kosi Bay and we could have gone anywhere for food but not for Biltong so much to everyone’s disgust we sat in roadworks for 20 minutes getting into the town all for Biltong.
    Our first stop was the Biltong shop where we chose our meat that was hanging up, and then a lovely lady came and put it through a slicer and within 5 minutes I had a huge bag of Biltong. Then it was onto the spar shop and because of the roadworks that had the whole town down to one lane and a very busy market going on, on the street it was manic and we couldn’t get parked at the spar and Pieter and Simon if he’d stay in the car, watch it and bark at anyone that came close.
    Simon then said “ are you serious?”
    And Pete replied “ Well, you don’t really have to bark unless you want to but can you stay with the car?”.
    Ellie and I were pissing ourselves in the back at the thought of Simon having to bark at strangers coming near the car, and more so that he thought Pieter was serious.
    The shopping took about 20 minutes with enough pork, chicken and steak to do atleast 4 days worth of meals and to show my appreciation for Pieters cooking and driving and Simon waiting in the car I bought 6 beers, enough for 2 each. Then it was a long drive back through the roadworks and home.
    It was nearly 5:30pm by the time we got back to the lodge, it had been a very full and exciting day and we were all tired. The boys sat down with the beers and Ellie had tea while Pete let a chicken stew bubble away for a couple of hours and then we had a lovely dinner of chicken stew and rice. Then we drank the last of the beers and at 8:30pm it was time to head to bed.    Read more

  • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
    Day 6

    WinterDodgers & Super Tubing

    March 29, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    This morning we were all up really early at 6am. I hung around our little house until 6:30am because I didn’t want to wake Pete but when I did go up to the lodge he was already up with the kettle boiling and a joint on the go.
    We didn’t have any plans for today so mine and Ellies plan was to just have a chill day whilst Pieter put his 2 employees to work.
    That all changed when one of the 2 workers didn’t turn up so Pieter couldn’t direct them on what needed to be done next to the new rooftop terrace.
    His plan was to tell them what he wanted put in there as they had just finished putting a new palm roof on the wooden framing yesterday but in the end the one guy that did turn up just went to work strimming the outside grounds.
    In the meantime Ellie chilled out looking at butterflies while I did a 30 minute workout and had a quick shower.
    When we went back to the lodge Pieter told us his plans had changed and he had moved loads of chairs and tables up to the roof terrace and even erected a hammock. It looked super cool.
    Then he said he wanted to put up some fairy lights and eventually lay a sand floor and have a little bar area. We could just tell he wished it all could be done now.
    Funnily enough the floor of the terrace is actually sand, but it full of grass and weeds so Simon asked if he had a rake and before long Simon, Ellie and I were raking through the floor picking out the grass, roots and weeds. Luckily we had the new roof for shade because it was now hot. A couple of hours went by and we had done a third of the roof and gave up for the day with the raking, but while looking for his lights Pete found an old bar top and bought it up to make a bar.
    The next job we did was to wire up and hang the fairy lights. Pete was insistent he didn’t want them anywhere near the newly laid palm or framework incase they caught alight, so we settled on wrapping them around the chimneys.
    Then he went off to find some brackets to put the bar up.
    Not being able to find heavy duty brackets I suggested we bolt a piece of 2x2 against the wall that was already there and nail the worktop to that and then put two legs on the front from the left over fence posts, so off he went to get the drill and some bolts. Everything was there to do the job.
    The next thing he said was “ let’s leave that and go supertubing “. Nobody knew what supertubing was but he had been in about taking us all day. I said all the stuff is hear to finish this worktop and it’s only a 20 minute job, and after a friendly argument he gave in and I drilled and bolted the 2x2 to the wall with Simon skinning my knuckles on both hands, to match the blister I’d given myself earlier from the raking.
    Then we held the top in place and measured the legs and the post we had was literally cut in half and the legs were nailed to the front and dug into the sand floor, and the job was done. We had a beautiful, Solid bar area and Pete was really happy.
    “Now let’s go Supertubing “ he said and with our swimming gear on we headed out towards the lake that’s infested with crocodiles and hippos.
    Supertubing is definitely a Pete invention and it’s only been tried by 3 other German guys that were here when Pete thought it seemed like a good idea.
    A few months ago there was a cyclone that hit the edge of South Africa where we are now on the lake and this forced the water from one part of the lake towards another part of the lake that is lower creating narrow, fast flowing, shallow downhill rivers that merge the 2 lakes together.
    Supertubing is diving in to the fast flowing water on your belly and riding the water all the way down to the lake where there might or might not be a crocodile or hippo. We would see when we got there.
    We all stripped down to our swimwear and Pieter went was up first, diving in head first onto his front and half swimming and half being pushed by the current disappearing down the narrow channels. I went next and I don’t mind admitting that as I was being pushed down the channel over some deep water I was crapping my pants at the thought of coming face to face with a crocodile or hippo but luckily we got to the end and it was safe. Then it was Simons turn and once he’d got to the end the 3 of us went back and did it again but with Ellie aswell. It was a right laugh, probably because of the scare factor and at the end we all just laid on the edge of the fast flowing water in a sand bar relaxing in the sun and cooling down.
    It had been a packed day already and it was only 2:30pm and as we headed back to the lodge Pieter suggested we take a sunset drive later on.    Read more

  • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
    Day 6

    A not so Sunset drive.

    March 29, 2023 in South Africa

    When we got back to the lodge around 3:15pm, the was a man and woman there that Pieter didn’t particularly like. We had met them briefly the day we had arrived and the couple are pissheads and stoners, and I do mean serious pissheads and stoners. But apart from not being able to understand them very well they seemed harmless but not really our kind of people and Pieter wasn’t that impressed they had just turned up out of the blue.
    Pieter, Ellie and I were sat around the kitchen table whilst Simon and the couple were on the sofas and then the guy came over and wanted to speak to Pieter about buying his Safari Land Cruiser, and they went off for Pete to show them around, and Pete knew it was a waist of time because they wouldn’t be able to come up with the money and after the viewing we all ended up around the kitchen table.
    The girl didn’t say much atall today, unlike when we first arrived but she did smoke joint after joint and so did he and he also drank 2 big bottles of beer within the the first 45 mins. Which left him with none. Then he asked Pete if the bottle store accepted cards and Pieter said no it’s cash only and I saw the panic set in on the guys face.
    He’d definitely already had enough because he couldn’t string a sentence together and when he did he’d forget what he was saying before he got to the end of a sentence and then Pieter mentioned the sunset drive and somehow they invited themselves to.
    Simon had already dismissed himself earlier in the day so that left just me and Ellie in the back of the chuckit bucket with a girl that doesn’t want to speak and a guy that can’t. We were now dreading this outing.
    Just before 5pm we set out in Chucky with me, Ellie and the non talker in the back and the drunk in the front with Pieter clambering around all over the front seats and opening hatches and windows like a monkey.
    We headed back towards the lake and then turned left at the lake running right next to it for miles. It was very beautiful and scenic but the wind was blowing across the openness of the area and we didn’t see any hippos or crocodile’s.
    To top it off there wasn’t much of a sunset and nobody except me wanted to get out when we were at the sunset spot, so we just headed back for home and after I’d dropped my camera off in our little house we came back up to the lodge and the other 2 had left.
    Ellie and I were both relived that they weren’t staying for dinner and we sat around the kitchen with Simon whilst Pieter cooked us a lovely dinner of wors sausage, corn on the cob and green beans followed by banana frittas.
    It had been an exhausting day of work and play and despite the crappy field trip at the end of the day it had been great, and by 8:30pm we were all ready for bed.    Read more

  • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
    Day 7

    Zuka & Umkhuze Game Drive

    March 30, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    At 6:30am I was awake, Simon was leaving us today to head back to his family in Johannesburg and Pieter was going to drop him off at the bus depot. He was told to be ready for 7:30am sharp and I felt like we should atleast see him off from here and say goodbye, so it was an early start for everyone.
    Just before 7:30 Pieter asked us what we wanted to do for the day and Ellie suggested another day in a park and rather than Pete having to come back we quickly got all our things together and threw them in Karin. Then we had to wait until 8am for Huzane to turn up, she is Petes second mum and cleaner, and then we left.
    At 8:30am we said goodbye to Simon and put him in the minibus to Johannesburg which is around 7 hours away. Then we were on our own again, with Ellie riding shotgun this time and me having the whole of the back seat with my camera gear. Straight away I got the Biltong out as now there would be more to go around.
    Our next destination wasn’t really a stop. It was the Zuka Private Game Reserve and is super expensive catering to the rich for private safaris but there is a main road that runs through the park and has to be kept open as it was there before the park fell into private hands and we took that road through the game reserve to get to our destination.
    The route was amazing and we saw Zebra, a huge water buffalo that was the Mike Tyson of all buffalos and then we spotted a lone rhino in the distance.
    I was gutted it was so far away but 5 minutes later I spotted a closer Rhino looking at us and as I started taking photos a baby one walked out from behind. I couldn’t believe our luck and it was an incredible sighting, had we have been 5 minutes earlier or later we wouldn’t have seen them. Then we spotted a giraffe at the side of the road a little further up and as we got closer a baby giraffe stepped out into the middle of the road right in front of us.
    Just as we came out of the game reserve there was a little roadside motel called the Boabab inn that did breakfasts and as it was now 11:30am and we had all skipped breakfast we stopped for food.
    It looked like a nice place to stay with little thatched rooms dotted all around a lush green landscape and a tiny swimming pool just behind the restaurant area and they did us a lovely fried breakfast. Then it was back in Karin for 20 minutes until we got to our park for the day. The uMkhaze game reserve, and yes that is the correct spelling.
    The parks in this part of Africa are lush and green and very foresty. There are also huge rocky cliffs dotted about and lots of rivers and lakes so water for the animals isn’t really a problem even in the dry season, so the whole feel of the place is very jungly and this also makes spotting animals a lot harder.
    We saw lots of our usual finds like warthogs, Impalas and now imyalas are on that list aswell as various birds, which is always special to us but not so exciting anymore. What really made our day exciting was when we climbed an observation tower and right infront of us were 2 huge white rhino. We couldn’t believe our luck, we had, had a real result with hippos today and had we driven past or there hadn’t been a tower we would never have seen them from the road because the grass was to high. We had been really lucky.
    Not long after that sighting and back in the car we headed for a hide that was really just an open piece of grass overlooking the lake but here we saw 2 hippos, a bunch of Vervet Monkeys and on the way out we saw a massive water monitor which is a super rare find on a game drive. Again we had been really lucky.
    Just before 4pm we started heading home which took about an hour and we said what a good day it had been for animals. Then after coffees Pieter cooked us an amazing fillet steak, with potato salad, African style, and mixed vegetables. It was all amazing.
    By 8pm we were all done and we sat with Pieter talking until 8:30pm whilst he had his last joint of the day and some of the whiskey we had brought him and then it was time for bed.    Read more

  • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
    Day 8

    A Day Of Rain & Rest

    March 31, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    This morning we stayed in bed until just gone 7am. We woke up to grey, very English looking skies and it had been raining most of the night.
    By 7:30am the skies had let loose and it started raining and by 8am just halape turned up for her work it was throwing it down.
    Waterfalls were coming off of the roof everywhere and rivers were running down the garden and it stayed like that for the next 3 hours.
    By 11am we had given up on an outdoor excursion and as Pieter had some stuff on the computer to do, Ellie and I headed back to our room for an hour or so to watch tv on our kindle and phones.
    Just after 12pm Pieter came down and got us for an African style macaroni cheese and some fresh bread which was really good. I don’t know whether or not Pieter did his computer stuff, he gets very easily sidetracked.
    After lunch the rain had stopped, the sun came out and it started heating up nicely and Pieter suggested a walk to the lake which was 2 miles away and off we went.
    Cutting across the 2 miles of open landscape was a nightmare for me in shorts as the whole place is full of fleas and ticks, not to mention snakes and Ellie and I got quite a few. Even up our arms. On the way we spotted loads of insects because the grass was still wet from this morning’s downpour including Butterflies, Moths various dung beetles and spiders.
    Once we got to the lake we could barely see the hippos but we sat down just away from the waters edge while Pieter had a cigarette. It really is a beautiful spot and a beautiful landscape.
    After a 20 minute break it was time to head back and Pieter decided for some reason to cut through the small woods and we had to go back on ourselves several times but it was all worth it when we came to a clearing and the was a troop of Vervet Monkeys right infront of us.
    We kept a lookout all the way home for animal tracks in the sand and we saw the footprints of hippos and babies, mongoose, monkeys and dycker which is a tiny deer. Then we saw an African marsh harrier on the ground right infront of us. It was a really beautiful and exciting walk and we were all hit and sticky and needed a drink when we got back to the house.
    I took a cold shower and cleaned up and then the 3 of us went up on to the newly built roof terrace to watch a crappy sunset as the clouds had rolled in to the west. Then as it got darker we had a grand turning on several times of the fairy lights as the plug was faulty before we went back down to the house while Pieter cooked a lovely dinner of pork chops, rice and vegetables.
    Then it was back to our usual nighttime ritual of sitting on the sofas while Pieter smoked his last joint and had a whiskey before we all went to bed.    Read more

  • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
    Day 9

    The Beach

    April 1, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    This morning I was up early with the sun at 6am. I waited until 6:30 until I went upto the house to get coffee and Pieter was just getting up and straight away started getting out stuff for breakfast. Rusks, pineapple, granola and yoghurt. Pieter doesn’t really do breakfast and I’m happy with a rusk with my coffee so Ellie had to eat most of it. Luckily she likes breakfast.
    Just after 9am Pieter decided the weather was good enough for a beach day.
    This is the day I had been dreading because I can’t think of anything worse than sitting on a beach waisting time except maybe playing golf, but Pieter promised we’d love it.
    We just took drinks,beach mats and snorkels with us this time and we we jumped in Karin and headed back to Mabibi beach where we went a few days ago.
    Once there we headed down the wooden steps to the beach and considering it was a Saturday there were only 6 other people swimming and about 10 people waiting to set off on a ribbed boat tour. We turned right from the bottom of the steps and headed to the rocky area where Pieter said there are loads of rock pools.
    He wasn’t wrong. As soon as we left the beach and got into low water there were hundreds of rock pools. Some big, some small, some just a few inches deep and some so deep you could stand in.
    We saw hundreds of fish, mostly small ones but lots with stripes and beautiful colours. We also saw a few crabs in the pools tucked up against rocks. We soon worked out that the tide was coming in so there would be no snorkel today and instead we headed back the way we came, past the steps and into the sandy side of the beach. Here there were huge rollers coming in and straight away we all stripped down to just our swimming stuff and Pieter and I ran in to tackle the surf.
    There were some huge waves, much taller than Pieter and I and to get out into the rollers we ducked down and swam underneath the surf. Once we were passed the surf we were where the waves were just turning and breaking and we would jump up, let the wave catch us and throw us all the way back to the beach. This was mine and Ellies first time in the Indian Ocean and it was great fun.
    After an exhausting 20 mins of being battered we all sat on the beach to catch our breath and we watched the sand crabs running down the beach and the really small ones were making the homes in the sand right next to where we were sitting. They were about an inch big and go into the hole and come out with the pincers full of sand a throw it in a pile and then disappear again it was comical to watch.
    After I had another quick battering from the waves on my own we waited another 20 mins and then headed back to Petes for lunch.
    It was now only 12:20pm and it felt a lot later.
    Back at Petes, Ellie had a shower and washed the salt from her hair and I dried myself off properly and got changed and then we both went up to the house where Pieter had cooked us a lovely lunch of Sausage, hand made chips and salad. Then with tired eyes from the all the salt in the sea and feeling full from dinner everyone went for a nap.    Read more

  • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
    Day 9

    The Tree

    April 1, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    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

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