4/2/2011 Nice day in PSJ as little 'Prince' (a local guy) took us out for a walk to see 'Second Beach' and a 'blowhole'. The air at this blowhole was so powerful it almost knocked us over as we stood over it but we didn't get to see the water come out! We sat and admired the giant waves crashing into the rocks and learned of how sharks have recently killed a couple of people in the area before seeing sopme gravestones of people who have died at the dangerous si...

8/3/2011 Random morning involving eating egg soldiers and then walking along a ghostly misty Bloubergstrand. Visited a couple of nice malls, one with a giant chess board and then dined out. Danie took us on another scenic drive through the countryside via hills, vineyards, farms and arid land, as well as nice properties on the seafront at Melkbosstrand and an estate called Burgundy's with a golf course and houses fetching very little in English terms! Don't kn...

3/2/2011 We'd only scraped a few hours kip but it was time for the daunting yet exciting shark dive. We kitted up and drove to the launch site on the beach at the rivermouth. We had to have lifejackets on to start as the waves are so lethal if you got knocked off, you could be in serious trouble. But it was a successful launch out of the estuary and we were out into the ocean. Our dive instructor put sardines and fish liver oil into the water and withing secon...

2/2/2011 Up early so that me and Jack could get to Umkomaas on the coast. We jumped on a shuttle to Underberg where only Jack paid and then we hitch-hiked to Ixopo. First of all a white South African gave us a lift to the junction near Bulmer where we hopped in a group of black guys' car. They took us a bit further to Donnybrook where another black guy took us to Ixopo in his Golf. We had to pay the group a couple of quid but we were doing well! At Ixopo, we h...

31/1/2011 A decent sleep for once before we headed to a mall to get some jobs done. I ended up having a severe haircut, the first one I have had done by someone other than my barber Uncle in my whole life. The black local who did it was useless. I was in there for almost two hours and when I cam out I just had my hair really short, two on the sides and three on top. I asked him to use scissors for the top but he even asked if he could use a shaver as he obviou...