Day 8 - Alight from vehicle at own risk

Should we alight dear readers?   Yes, we shall alight.  How else to show you our right side driving Toyota Corolla?

We had a nice view from this lookout. 

Addo is a big park, but it’s extremely dense with vegetation and hard to spot much of anything unless you have a watering hole.  We are hoping the same goes for the lions, and that we too are had to spot. 

We found this warthog (and others)  happily munching the weeds. Hakuna Matata. 

We also revisited the elephant neighborhood and found it busy with activity. 

But it’s the end of our safari time.  Today, we start driving the Garden Route. The gps took us there on a dirt road for a large portion of the drive. That cloud of dust below was kicked up by the oncoming car. 

Ranger Dylan told us we would find lots of occasions for a local colloquisim expressing mystification at the way things work here: T. I A. .... This Is Africa.   Whipping up the dust as we drove along, I thought it was pretty appropriate.  This is a “road” on our GPS! 

It was a 2 hour drive to out lunch spot on prime South African surfer beach Jeffrey’s Bay.  This was the view from our restaurant. 

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But we are staying at a different beach town for the next two nights - Plettenberg Bay. 

Here’s the view of the ocean and bay from our balcony 

And our walk on the incredibly large beach. 

Kat’s first touch of the Indian Ocean (cold like Maine,though it is just spring here, so I can’t be too critical. It wasn’t stopping the surfers)

Not sure what’s up tomorrow, but I can tell our vacation is switching to a new mode.  South Africa has many sides.