We said our goodbyes to Cape Town and picked up our rental car, which will take down the Garden Route for the next 6 days.
We are quickly adjusting to driving of the left side of the road….for the first few hours Scott turned the windshield wiper on every time he aimed for the blinker....I'm still doing it 5 days later! They call traffic lighst robots here and when you are on a 2 lane highway, cars will move over into the shoulder so that you can safely pass them. When you move over for someone else they will flash their hazards at you as a thank you…super courteous drivers.
There are wild baboons all over the highways too and signs warning you not to feed them...we got a great view of a group of them on the way to Outdshoorn!
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| Baboon on the side of the highway...picture taken from my passenger window! |
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| Stunning scenery along the highway! |
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| Tunnels carved right through the mountain! |
We headed south to Boulder's beach first to see the penguin colony that lives on the beach right outside of Simon’s town.
It was great fun and there were hundreds of penguin milling about on the beach and in the hills surrounding them. Street signs that said "watch for penguins crossing" and warning drivers to check under their cars for penguins before driving away were amusing!
It was great fun and there were hundreds of penguin milling about on the beach and in the hills surrounding them. Street signs that said "watch for penguins crossing" and warning drivers to check under their cars for penguins before driving away were amusing!
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| Momma and her baby. |
There was a pretty little beach area near the penguins that we enjoyed for a bit before heading onwards! You can see why it is called Boulder's Beach!
Once we had our fill, we drove about 6 hours along the famous route 62 to a town called Outdshoorn.
We found a nice little bed and breakfast and grabbed a bite to eat before crashing from the wine tour festivities the night before.
Oudtshoorn is a small town in South Africa’s Cape Province. It became the new home for a thriving Litvak community that tried to make their fortune during the Ostrich feather boom during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and up until World War 2. There are still ostrich farms all over the place.
We still can’t get over how incredibly cheap food and hotels are here. They are practically giving things away. We have been eating at the nicest fanciest restaurants we can find….having incredible meals that would have cost $100’s in Canada for around $30. A bottle of wine costs $8-12 tops and about $2-12 for a meal…a beer runs about $1-2! Our hotels are costing around $50/night including breakfast!
Once we had our fill, we drove about 6 hours along the famous route 62 to a town called Outdshoorn.
We found a nice little bed and breakfast and grabbed a bite to eat before crashing from the wine tour festivities the night before.
Oudtshoorn is a small town in South Africa’s Cape Province. It became the new home for a thriving Litvak community that tried to make their fortune during the Ostrich feather boom during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and up until World War 2. There are still ostrich farms all over the place.
We still can’t get over how incredibly cheap food and hotels are here. They are practically giving things away. We have been eating at the nicest fanciest restaurants we can find….having incredible meals that would have cost $100’s in Canada for around $30. A bottle of wine costs $8-12 tops and about $2-12 for a meal…a beer runs about $1-2! Our hotels are costing around $50/night including breakfast!
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