The kids have been out of school since mid July, so after nearly 4 months, it was time to get them back into school. Due to the difference in school years between hemispheres, the kids will be in...
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The day started off having to pack our bags, and get ourselves ready for our flight back to Australia. There was an area where our bags could be left, and after having some more beach/pool time,...
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Another lazy day of alternating from the beach to the pool. The kids had fun on the beach paddle boats, and small sailboats just off the shore. They played with the kids from kids club, so we...
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No more scuba diving for Phil. To avoid decompression sickness, you need to have at least 12 hours between your last scuba dive and your next flight. This morning we had a wake up call booked...
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Totally getting the hang of alternating time at beach and then beside the pool. Whilst Phil goes off to scuba dive in the morning, Nicole finds a beach lounge to read and the kids go off with t...
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Phil had an early dive this morning to Holt Rock 25m, water temperature 24 degrees. Perfect! Phil loved this dive, the area has massive blocks of granite boulders covered in coral. The mari...
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Phil had his first dive at Mauritius at Emily Wreck. He really enjoyed the experience. The wreck is about 25 meters deep, and the barge, Emily was sunk here in 1981. There were lots of sur...
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We moved to a different part of the beach today, and spent a lot of time in the rock pools, looking for crabs, starfish and other marine creatures. Today we remembered lunch, and dined at the N...
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With a 2 hour time forward time difference, we woke up at a reasonable time and decided to have a relaxing day at the beach. The kids spent time making sandcastles and entire villages as they of...
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An early start to the day, with the habit of early starts for safari drives, Cameron was awake and ready to go at 5.20am! Peter took us to his friend, Warren's home, to see his amazing aviari...
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Our final Safari drive on our trip. We saw lots of the same animals, the highlight was seeing a dazzle of zebras and actually hearing them communicate. We were shocked, we had never heard ze...
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Another early morning start, and when we arrived at the main lodge, the rangers and trackers were excited to tell us that overnight the lions has tracked down a buffalo and managed to bring it do...
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It was with great sadness that we left Bongani this morning. We have had some fantastic experiences while we were there, and we hope that one day we will be able to come back again. If ever y...
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Morning Drive. Up at the usual time, the storm had cooled the air down and it was back to a comfortable temperature again. Armed with enough mosquito repellant to cover a small army (we were ...
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Day 11, Monday, Bongani Monday was a hot day – it was 42 degrees by 9am. We were out at 6am as usual, but most of the animals must have known that a really hot day was on the way and the si...
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Up again, bright and early, those 6am wake up calls are unpleasant, but the reason for them is so worthwhile! Lots of things to see this morning. Mammals Nyala (this one is a male) Impala...
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Our wake-up call came through at 5.15am. We were dressed, drowned in Mosquito repellent and up to the main lodge for 5:45, where we had a lovely hot chocolate or cup of coffee and some biscuits b...
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After breakfast, Phil caught the shuttle bus back to the airport to pick up the hire car. With the new roadworks near the airport, the navi had no hope in sorting it out. Phil had 4 goes of tryin...
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We had booked tickets to do a Soweto tour, which was recommended by our friends Peter and Mary. I think before we started our trip across Johannesburg, Nicole was a bit ‘nervous’ because of a...
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Our last day in Capetown dawned fine and warm. After spending time getting our bags packed, we headed back to our favourite breakfast cafe (the boys ‘persistent request’..), Buzz . The boys l...
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Early the next morning we were again collected in a mini-van, this time by Pieter, to head up into the world-famous wine districts around Stellenbosch. Compared to the previous day, the weather w...
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An early start and a quick breakfast in the apartment before being picked up for the first tour of Cape Town with Tish, from Chanti Tours and Charters . We were picked up in a minibus, and we hea...
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Sunday morning dawned clear and sunny – the perfect weather to head up to the top of Table Mountain . The locals told us not to plan a specific day to go up via the cable car but instead ‘if ...
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The boys and Phil had decided that they would love to try a helicopter ride – and whilst we were at the Waterfront we would check out the prices for the following day. Whilst we were negotiati...
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As advised by many people, we booked our tour to Robben Island well in advance. We are lucky that we did – the boat that they normally use was broken, and they had to call in other, smaller bo...
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