Knysna and no Internet – July 2

It’s sad to think I’m actually disappointed that we had no Internet last night. How times change. I remember travelling through Europe, Canada and the US in the early 80s when we used a Poste Restante to collect snail mail every month or two. A long distance phone call was a big deal, and we used film cameras and waited till we had enough money to develop the pics. Now, we travel with a power board to charge the iPhones, the iPad, my two digital cameras (one SLR and one snappy job), the boys’ cameras, John’s GPS/watch, …..I think that’s all. Our photos are reviewed instantly, and (Internet reception pending) we are in contact with the whole world all the time.

Today we moved along the coast to Knysna, another enormous town/city. I’m starting wonder if South Africa has anything like Wye River on the books, with a pub, a shop and a camping ground. John offered me the opportunity to have a “La de da Latte” at a swish little cafe at the heads to the inlet on which Knynsa sits. It really was a good brew, and indeed we were surrounded by the beautiful people that own the insanely expensive real estate splashed all over the hill sides. As John says, “no holiday shacks here”, only mansions.

On to the Elephant Sanctuary – a place that looks after elephants that have been injured and orphaned due to poaching. We got to touch and walk with the elephants, – they have very snotty noses – but declined to ride them. I really don’t think they were meant for that.

Right next door was a huge bird sanctuary. We saw some beautiful birds, including toucans, macaws and heaps that we don’t know the names of! Just look forward to a Slide night at our house and you’ll get to see them all!
From there it was a couple of hours drive to Jeffries Bay where we will be for a two nights. John has a board lined up and the sharks are circling awaiting his entry into the famed breaks here.

20120703-142048.jpg

Here’s Harry and me up close and personal with one of the elephants.

20120703-142131.jpg

The charging fiasco.

20120703-142114.jpg

One of the Toucans. They are much smaller than I thought they would be.

20120703-141740.jpg

Ferg walking with a snotty nosed elephant. It was cool.

4 thoughts on “Knysna and no Internet – July 2

  1. Thought you might like Knysna. It is reminded me of Noosa.
    I couldn’t bring myself to ride on ostrich. they all looked too sad when I was there.

    Cold, raining and a bit yuk in Melbourne. I am sick of going to the park with a beach towel to dry off all the slides. Can’t wait for our trip to Fiji to warm up – we leave in 25 days!!

    Not much to report here. Amy into her big girl bed now and she had her first haircut last week. My baby is growing too fast.

    Look forward to your reports on the next stop.

    S xx

  2. The boys say Hi to Amy. Ostrich riding was only 20 seconds and way too hard to tell the boys they couldn’t do it !! At least I stopped the elephant riding. These elephants are actually orphaned ones that have been saved from poachers.

Comments are closed.