Where's Kelly?!?!

We've been on Holiday for almost 2 weeks, and boy have we traveled far! We are on the garden route and it is absolutely beautiful.

Last Monday we started in Knaysna and went to Feather Bed Reserve Area. Being the first place we went to we were all in love, and I will say it was still one of my favorite stops. We hiked down the hill and stood at the point above the Indian Ocean and everything just seemed so vast. It was beautiful! Then we had lunch under the milkweed trees it was just like we were in a tree house eating traditional Africa foods.

Tuesday we headed to Addo National Elephant Park, and the weather seemed to be against us or so the tour guides thought. We were more than lucky! Sandy has been calling us a charmed group for everything that seemed to be going wrong changes the minute we start out on it. Sandy and our tour guides, Pierre and Antionette, said that we should not wait on seeing all kinds of animals because the weather was so bad, but our charm came out and we all it all!

One of my students, and you know who you are, wrote in a letter to me before I left that if I saw a lion WATCH OUT!! Well guess what I didn't just see 1, I saw SIX! It was amazing. And we saw them three days in a row which is said to never happen. We also had some close encounters with Elephants, we also saw a Black Rhino on our night safari which is said to be extinct in less than three years. It was an amazing time at Addo.

Next stop was Tsitsikamma, which is another National Park on the Indian Ocean. Our accomadations were less than 50 feet from the shore. And while it did rain every night we were there we made the most of it with Zip Lining, and taking a hike to the Waterfall. The Waterfall was beautiful!! The hike was extreme. It was pretty much like we were climbing the side of the mountain. Pictures will never show how pretty it was.

My Shark Take Drive Friends

Rob, Katie, Andrea, Me and Beth

Fun in Knsyna

Sometime this past weekend we left Tsitsikamma we headed to Mossel Bay which is much more of a surf town. While we were there we had a very relaxing time. Some of my friends jumped off a bridge and others jumped out of a plane and, I well I fell off a rock into the Indian Ocean. Luckily there was very few rocks around and I came up with very few battle scars. I actually only have 2 really bad cuts on my toes. But I wouldn't trade those for the fun I had in the Ocean with Abby.

And where am I now? We made our way to Cape Agullas- the most southern tip of Africa. It is also home to the longest beach in the southern hemisphere. This backpackers place is amazing, very much an entertaining area. Yesterday I jumped into the Ocean with some sharks. Wait let me rephrase that, I jumped into a cage to swim with the sharks. That has to be an amazing experience, I will not forget. And today we went to the point and took some pictures of standing at the two oceans.......
              Fiore Flowers, what two oceans was I standing at?
And then we climbed to the top of the 2nd oldest working lighthouse in Africa. I have a special surprise for my Fiore Flowers about that lighthouse when I get home. Don't let me forget.

We still have 3 days on Holiday, and we're doing a lot of relaxing and some wine tasting. But I am very much ready to get working with my students back in Stellenbosch.

I send my Happy Easter wishes to everyone from all the way in Africa. I'll be back soon-less than 4 weeks to go but so much more to learn.

(Pictures are hard to upload but here are a couple from the weeks)