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Hello happy campers!! This si the first time I've had access to the net for nearly 2 weeks so got loads to write about!! BUT I'll try and keep it short and let the pictures do the talking too!!
After celebrating my birthday the night before and having only 1 hour sleep I left Cape Town on my birthday and flew to Durban. I stayed at a place called Ansteys beach backpackers which is really cool, and is a proper surf camp! The dorms where basically sheds!! I just slept on the beach all afetrnoon and then went for a swim and played around in the shorebreak!! The water is so warm there, especially compared to Cape Town! The next day I went for a surf which was awesome as I was just in my boardies... no wetsuit!! I decided to move hostels to a place in town. After a visit to an indian market and listening to yet another person telling me how dangerous it is there "especially when the sun goes down" I decided to move on the next day!!
I went to a place called St.Lucia about hours north of Durban. This place is sooooo nice!! It's very tropical, very green and wildlife everywhere including hungry hungry hippos and Crocodiles!! The first night I went on a night drive which was the first safari type thing so far!! Saw some hippos and chameleons. The guide was a guy called William managed to spot chameleons in the dark from quite far away which was impressive!! Guess you had to be there...!!
Anyway, the next morning I went on a walk around the St.Lucia wetlands which was really nice. We stood about 15 meters away from a group of hippos in the water, saw some zebras, monkeys but still no crocs!! That night we had a beach fire and went for a swim!! Aparently there are crocodiles that niw swim in the surf and there have been 4 surfers attacked this year!! Which made me think who would win a fight between a croc and a shark?? Answers on a postcard...
The next day I went fishing with a dude that works as a guide at Cruger national park. We tryed fishing in the surf but just kept pulling in lots of seaweed so we walked over to the river which is home to the crocodiles!! Needless to say I caught a fish and lived to tell the story!! This is radio 4...
That night I got chatting to a Zulu guy called Lucky!! He had a mobile phone which plays mp3s and the only music he had on it was Westlife!! I gave him my ipos and introduced him to some proper music!! He had never heard the Chili Peppers, Jack Johson... so I promised to send him some CDs!!
The next day I was supposed to leave to go further north as I wanted to go on Safari at a place called Hluhluwe Imfolozi game reserve. But William the guide said I could drive there from St.Lucia and he would come along too!! I sorted a car out for the next day and we left at 5am!! It was awesome and we saw pretty much everything apart from any big cats. We found some Lion pooh but no Lions!! There was an annoying americain girl who came along (just to split the costs) and I was tempted to feed her to the wild dogs at one point!! I nearly fell asleep at the wheel too on the way home which was a bit scary!!
The next day I took the Baz Bus up to Swaziland! That was a bumpy ride and funny as there were goats, cows and donkeys jumping out onto the raod all the time!! The driver pulled over to buy some lunch from a guy at the side of the road who was cooking some sort of stew on an open fire. He said it was cow head but, well, surely not!! I stayed the night in swaziland then drove all day to Jo'burg.
I've been staying in Jo'burg for a few days and leave for Singapore tomorrow. It's been cool here and I've recharged the batteries and restored my liver so it no longer hurts when I take a wee!! JOKE!! Curtis took me to the Lion park which was cool as I didn't get to see them on safari!! We got there for feeding time and drove round watching the Lions, Cheetahs and Wild Dogs chew on a meaty carcus!! They are so big in real life!! Then we went to some encosures where there's just a fence between you and the Lions and Tigers!! That was SCARY!! They kept storking us and charging at the fence... I'm guessing they were hungry!! Plus I'm sure they could jump the fence if they really wanted to!! I lost my bet too as I didn't manage to slap a Lion!! I can't even remember who the bet was with anyway!!
The next day I went to work with Curtis and drove round a lot, and that night we went to an Irish pub for St.Patricks day which was good fun, and the live band was awesome!! I felt a bit delicate the next day so we went to the casino which was cool as there's loads of restaurants and stuff to see.
Now I'm gonna go pack my bags for tomorrow!! I'll try and update it more often so there's not so much reading to do!!
Later alligators!!
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