We left at 10am and what an amazing view Neil has of Fish Hoek, the beach and the mountains!!!!! Garth drove me through the hills to Table Mountain, where we were unable to go up in the cable car due to high winds but even the view from there was pretty breathtaking! We drove round to Signal Hill to see Robben Island and ate our tuna sandwich packed lunch there! We drove through Camps bay and Hougt bay. I saw Garths old church, restaurant where he worked and ...

We were woken at 9am with two ladies bringing in our ample breakfast of porridge, juice, coffee, toast, eggs, bacon and yoghurt!!! We enjoyed this on our room balcony with a lovely view over the bay to Knysna heads in our soft fluffy dressing gowns. We had left by 10 and made our way into the hills and eventually found the Smiths wood cabin. It was just beautiful, surrounded by thick Forrest with views over Knysna! I met Neil and Shelly and their kids. Also the...

We packed and left Wendy's and PE by 9.30 and began our 650km journey down The Garden Route. I felt rather sad to be leaving Robyn, Craig and Andrew. We stopped at Jeffrey's Baai and watched the surfing and ate a late breakfast at Wimpy's. We then stopped at Storms River mouth in Tsitsikamma Park. It was very beautiful there with a rugged cliff coastline, violent waves smashing high on rocks, with beautiful flowers and dassies (rock rabbits) all around! Garth...

We woke up early and went to Addo Elephant National Park which was a 30 min drive up the hills from PE. It was only R40 each as Garth got us in as South Africans! We spent 6 hours driving 60km around the park and we saw loads of warthogs and loads of elephants - some very close indeed! We didn't see any lions, but we did see zebras, kudu, jackals, and lots more! It was great to see healthy elephants in the wild (unlike Thailand) and there were lots of baby eleph...

We had a very lazy morning and cooked ourselves fish and veg for lunch. We spent the afternoon at Robyn's watching rubbish TV then enjoyed a lively dinner at Andrew and Cora's! I won my first ever game of settlers!