Christmas Eve was a really chilled day. Sarah and I headed down to Big Bay in the morning to relax at the beach and buy each other a small present in the local shops. Anthony was racing and Terry and Annabel went to watch him but he only had one race in the morning so all three of them joined us in the afternoon. Justin was spending the day with Claudia and her friend who was visiting from England and they also came and joined us later on. Big Bay is a famou...

The route we had planned to Cape Point took us the scenic route via Muizenberg and Simon's Town. It was a very nice day and the sun was shining, we had borrowed Justin's car and made good time getting there just before lunch. The scenery on the way there was stunning with lush mountains on the one side and golden beaches on the other. Some of the villages seemed very English at points. The area of Cape Point itself is actually a National Park and once we ent...

For anyone who hasn't heard of it, Robben Island is a small flat island off the coast of South Africa, visible from Cape Town, which was used both as a prison and leprosy "hospital" since the mid 1600's. It was also where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner for 18 of his 27 years during the apartheid era and is now a World Heritage Site and open to the public as a museum. Robben Island is Dutch for Seal Island. There are many islands all around ...

We went with Justin and Claudia to the local crocodile breeding park to see how it all worked, it is only a few minutes away from the farm so very local. They breed the African Nile Crocodile here. There are over a 1000 crocodile's housed in the dams and they are mainly bred for export, the main market being Italy. The first croc we were introduced to was a female one called stumpy, she was born without a tail so would normally drown and therefore is kept sepa...

Justin woke us up saying that we were going to the beach and we had half an hour till we were going to leave! Nice wakeup call! We piled in the Toyota Fortuna with him and Claudia (Justin's girlfriend) half an hour later and discovered our destination is a place called Langebaan (Lang-er-barn) which is about an hour's drive away and further up the coast from Cape Town and our usual destinations. We were planning to stop on the way for food and drinks and Jus...