Sabbatical in the Nature

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Sight seeing

The days after the squash was spent travelling around and showing some of the beautiful places to Ella and Segrun. We started of the Sunday by going up to the Table mountain by cable car and walking down. The amazing view from the top and even better there was no wind at all which made it even more stunning. The way down was also very nice, with jelly legs at the end of it and some even more as they walked down on slip slops. The next couple of days we could all feel that we have walked down as the muscles would complain each time we would get out of the car or start to walk around. The next day it was a lovely wine tasting session at Amani ( a wine we had tasted at Spier the Saturday). Of course some bottles of wine was purchased by all of us. Then it was off to Franschoek were we had lunch and then stayed over night at Tulbach. The next morning we were up early to drive to a lovely game reserve called Inverdoorn, which lies between Ceres and TouwsRivier. We did a 3 hour game drive and spotted the black wildebeest, blue wildebeest, giraffe, white rhino, zebra, springbok, gemsbok and many more buck. it was really a well worth drive and nice way to see the animals in the wild. In the smaller fenced off area we say the cheatah and the lions. The pictures will follow soon of some of these animals.
Then it was off to Montagu were we stayed overnight. The next morning it was down to the coast were we saw the lovely whales with there little ones. They are so close to the cliffs so you can see them very clearly. Got some pictures with there tails up in the air. Then it was back to the airport to drop off Ella and Segrun who were returning home again. It was also exciting to see if they were going to get on the flight as they were flying standby but they made it.

Now its relaxing for a while and enjoy the lovely sunshine and the beaches.

3 Comments:

At 2/11/06 14:26, Blogger Xavier said...

Hi Dominique,

Good to read you're having a good time after the Squash... I was expecting you to become World Champion... Next time :)

Enjoy your rest, soon some elephants will need all of your attention!

Here, the weather gets crap, so please provide a picture of the sunshine in Cap Town to keep us happy up here in Holland!

Take care!
Xavier

 
At 3/11/06 16:28, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hoi Do!
Vanavond weer eens competitie spelen, ik mis je, jij ons ook?!
Geniet er van en we houden je in de gaten, groetjes ook van roel en de meisjes,

Yvonne.

 
At 7/11/06 14:21, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Dom!! Lovely to read your comings and goings.Looking forward to hear your Elephant experiences!
I have no idea whahtyou are suppost to do. Are you working in groups?
Enjoy yourself and Take care
Love
YOur mom.

 

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