31/10/2002 Cape Town, South Africa
(Phill)
I'm barely hobbling along the streets these days, my knee is pretty much seized! Yesterday we got up early to go and play with great white sharks. It's about a 2 hour drive to the shark site but on the way we did stop to watch whales hanging out in a bay. It's amazing to just stand on the shore and watch these MASSIVE beasts just chillin'. We also got to see quite a few whales beaching (jumping out of the water) and that was very Free Willyish!
Unfortunately there were massive winds in the Cape yesterday and after we got to the site the trip was cancelled. Quite honestly it was probably a good thing since my body was falling apart that day. The infections in my leg aren't exactly going away (from the cliff falling day) and my right knee isn't exactly bending. On top of this I can't raise my arms up much! Not good! We rescheduled the dive for Saturday though, so I'm excited about that. The cage you hang out in isn't exactly thick though, but worrying!
I spent last night with a group of nice Danish and English and went to a place called the Drum Cafe. Basically they give you a bongo drum and you sit in a big circle playing it. Really good fun!
Today was the wine tour. I woke up and my knee was still pretty bad, a bit better though. So the bus picks us all up and heads out, there's a couple from Scotland, Dom and Suzzie. Can you believe Dom actually lives on Millport! We couldn't find any common childhood friends but we did spend quite a bit of time making fun of the Neds from Largs! More importantly he pointed out that Celtic is playing Blackburn tonight! So we'll be meeting up with some English lads for that!
The wine tour was good, granted it was a thinly disguised excuse to get drunk. We went to 4 big vineyards and tried all sorts of wines. I even spat a few of them out (like you're supposed to), but only the ones I didn't like. Cool stuff. ALthough the ride home was a bit insane! Suzzie managed to be sick all over the driver and then all over the floor, too much wine! Don't think I'll be drinking wine for a while!
Bought my flight from Cape Town to Joburg on the Africa
n equivalent of RyanAir. $50 for the flight, not bad!
Okay, Celtic game in 2 hours, must go meditate and prepare :)
Incidently, I wasn't the Scottish boy killed on the bus crash. I havn't even heard about it, just the concerned emails.
Posted by Admin at October 31, 2002 08:33 AM