The Garden Route

Writing from an internet cafe in Knysna (pronounced Nie-snah), on the southern coast of South Africa. Stayed overnight in a lovely place, the Beach House: an enormous house with wonderful timber floors right on the beach. Too freezing for any swimming though & today has come over super cloudy and rainy, contrast from week of high 28-30 degrees we had in Cape Town.

Have left Cape Town & now travelling along the scenic Garden Route by the south coast to Port Elizabeth. CT was brilliant, quite like Sydney in many ways: very cosmopolitan.

Have come via a little town of Outdshoorn (? pronunciation) which is absolutely ostrich crazy: they made stacks of cash selling ostrich feathers in the 1920's as fasion. They farm thousands of ostriches there, it's insane. We ate ostrich burgers for lunch & ostrich eggs for b'fast. Tasty: yellower & richer than chicken eggs. And larger!

Then found our way to Cango Caves, a bit like Jenolan but smaller: limestone caves, but less well kempt. A lot of the formations are covered in greenish algae from over light exposure. But what you can do (unlike Jenolan) is take an Adventure Trek through them which involves contorting your body into shapes & positions you never thought you could to squeeze through the tiny caverns between wonderfully large & spacioius great halls. Some of the tight spots though, at 1.5m were still talle enough for Aditi to stand straight up!! For once I was very jealous. But there were much tighter bits of only 25cm you had to squeeze through.

No time for photos.