Our South African experience began in St Lucia, which was billed as an environmental gem. Our first day we spent Kayaking in a hippo and crocodile infested estuary, it was very exciting even though we didn’t actually see any Hippos. That night Heather decided to demonstrate her ability as a human waste disposal by eating 1kg of prawns, I think the reason we saw no hippos was that the were scared that she might eat them. Unfortunately the following day was a bit of a right off as the weather had turned and our snorkeling trip had to be cancelled. We did manage to get to do the trip on our last day, but it was possibly the most disappointing snorkeling I have ever done, though the backdrop of white sand beach and sand dunes was pretty impressive. Overall St Lucia was a bit of a disappointment; I think that if we hadn’t seen so much in Africa it would have offered a good microcosm of the rest of the continent.
Our next stop was Durban, it was fun to be back in a big city for a few days, and we really made the most of this in a non cultural way by visiting the cinema 3 times the casino once and not a single museum. Oh and we also ate very very well, and drank lots of wine. We had intended to go surfing but Heather managed to catch pink eye again, so we had to spend the morning finding a doctor, she really will find any excuse to keep out of the water.
Cintsa was our next port of call; it is a stunning location, in a bay with a lagoon and lots of white sand. After the excesses of Durban it was time to get a little bit of activity back into our days, we started our first day with a bit of yoga, we nearly died right there, but no we pushed on and spent a couple of hours body boarding, and then died next to the swimming pool. The next event was our surf lesson, which was great fun a and we were doing pretty good until somebody managed to get tumbled in a wave and the surf board hit her (no clue to who I am talking about there), the fin took a chunk of her forehead out, and the rest of the morning was spent getting her stitched up. Really this is going too far with trying to avoid the water. On our last day I finished the surf lesson, and sort of stood up in a falling off way, while Heather went back for more Yoga punishment.
The activity levels were not allowed to drop any in Hogsback, where I took Heather on some route marches to the surrounding waterfalls and hills. Hogsback is a stunning place and everywhere you look you will be presented with a fabulous view. Other than walking and getting very very wet when it rained Hogsback was a laid back place, so drinking and looking at the mountains took up the balance of our time. Oh yeah that and eating, we got to sample Kudu, and I had some warthog sausages, both very very good.
|  | 
|
