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Sooooooooo, this is the first blog, and is probably gonna suck as I'm soooo tired after the last few days of fun and games...
I arrived into Cape Town on Saturday morning around 11, and it was already stinkin hot!! I sorted out a car to the hostel and got chatting to some local dude working at the airport which was cool as I had a 30 minute wait!! Got back to the hostel and there was a message waiting for me from Carl 9old school mate who's working out here at the hostel) to get some sleep as he had made plans for a mad one out in Cape Town that night!! So I just spent the afternoon by the pool!!
That night we had a few beers on the terrace at the hostel (which kicks ass) and catching up as I hadn't seen him for10 years, then we headed out to party in Long Street!! So cool, but it didn't really feel like I was in SA!! Went to a few bars and then walked home at 4am, and got hassled by local kids begging for money!!
The next day I headed out for a little walk down Long street where all the shops are which was cool, and bought some sun cream and flip-flops!! I also had a hot dog from a Braai on the street corner!! The African lady said it was pure beef but I'm not sure!! It tasted good anyway!! In the evening we went to a bar called La Med at Camps Bay... AWESOME!!! It was full of lovely ladies!! Had a stroll along the beach with one...
Anyway got back at 4am again!! The next day (Monday) I went to Camps Bay beach which is really nice and quite posh looking place and chilled out on the beach for a while. Met a couple of French girls too which was funny!! That evening I went to a club called Mercury which was sooo much fun silly dancing all night!!!! Beer was only 50cents a bottle so I didn't even spend 10 Euros!!
Needless to say the cheap beer gave me a bad ass headache so when I woke up I arranged to tag along with a surf school and spent all day Tuesday in the water at Big Bay at Bloubergstrand on the West coast. They didn't have any short boards to hire out so I had to take a beginners board which was not easy to turn but once I got used to it I had so much fun, the waves were great and it was so hot!! I could help thinking about all the Great whites out here!! But apparently they tends to stay rounf the East coast along False bay where all the seals are... lunch!! BUT when my leash snapped in the afternoon I swam back to the beach pretty damn quick!!
The highlight though was the pod of dolphins that passed by about 30m away!! That was mad!! At first I only saw one and so I obviously thought it was a shark!!! Then about 5 of them showed themselves!! To top that a whale swam across the bay just as we were about to leave the beach!! I didn't manage to get a photo though which was unfortunate!!
That night, after a sleep, I went to a traditional African restaurant with Carl and his girlfriend Mel on Long Street and had Wild Biltong and Feta salad for starters and wild game Goulash which was really good!! Plus it was free!!
Had an Early night and today we went to the Cheetah sanctuary in Stellenbosh which was the best thing so far as I love Cheetahs!! We went into a pen with some 9month old cubs but they were snoozing the whole time!! Check out the photos!!
Tomorrow I'm going on a tour of Cape Peninsula, hiking and biking so hopefully I'll get some great photos!!
Later alligators!!
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