Ferg, Harry and John started today with a 3km run to a really cool playground next to the funky stadium they built for the soccer world champs. It has climbing stuff, ropes activities and spinning thing…..all for 7-16 year olds. A run home and a big breakfast before hitting the road for Oudtshoorn – about 500km – east along the Garden Route. The landscape varied from rolling green hillsides as far as you can see, reminding us of mid north South Australia, to craggy treeless peaks just like the Pyrnees or even New Zealand. Then it became dry and scrubby, and we were convinced we could be in the Australian outback with red dirt that could have put us in the beautiful Red Centre.
We are staying on a guest farm just out of town, and have enjoyed a delicious dinner of medium rare ostrich. The boys loved it too!
John has Man Flu (read – just a cold) and is only just coping with being away from home for the Tour de France coverage. It’s hard to see it live when we’re out and about all day! Needless to say, it’s the first thing checked (before email) when we get Internet connections. Although it might just slip down the list when we get to Jeffries Bay and he wants to see what the surf is like.

Baboons are everywhere:

and can be dangerous. We saw them down near the Cape, and today on a spectacular mountain pass on the way to Barrymore. They just hang about by the road side. Far more intelligent than, say, our kangaroos though. The baboons move out the way of the cars!