You gotta be tough: the sea's are rough!
So I guess SA is
really good for onshore activities but we are forgetting something here aren’t
we, what about offshore, where only sailors dare to wonder, where the rough
Atlantic and the tranquil Indian Oceans clash with ferocious rivalry on the
southernmost point of Africa. Yes my friends: I’m talking around the lines of
“Cape Aghulas”.
Not many of you
have sailed that…. Blah! Blah! Blah! I’m just pulling your leg and talking
rubbish!
Anyways, once we
had got past the port on Durban and East London we were ready to open up our
laptops and see when there was a good weather window to go past the Cape. As
soon as we looked at the weather we left (and I think you can guess why).
I’ve read so many
tales of the men who have sailed across the Cape and gotten themselves
shipwrecked due to these big monsters eating their ships whole; luckily our
passage involved neither bad weather or any loch-ness monsters: to tell the
truth, it was so calm that we were motoring for quite a bit of it!
Cape Town is a
really nice place: we all love going to the big cities for a change, although I
think we overdid it with the amount of times we went to the cinemas to catch up
with the latest movies.
As the days went
on we decided that we were to pack everything up and go to Johannesburg to
collect our rented 4×4 veichle that we would be driving in for three weeks on
an Africa Road Trip through Botswana, Namibia and SA.