We’re still having a wonderful time exploring the Addo Elephant National Park!
The 3rd day of the new year was very, very hot and the animals – especially the elephants – congregated in enormous numbers around Addo’s waterholes to quench their thirst and cool off in the mud.
Happy New Year, everyone!
We’ve resumed our summer travels through the national parks and reserves of the Western and Eastern Cape and find ourselves at the Addo Elephant National Park this evening. In the little time we’ve spent here already today the Park has certainly lived up to its name!
Our final day at Storms River Mouth in the Tsitsikamma was mostly spent hiking around the forest and along the coastline. From tomorrow we’ll be visiting with Marilize’s parents so we will be quiet for the next few days until our travels pick up again early in the New Year.
Today was one of those days at the seaside where you needed every type of clothing from a sun hat to a rain jacket!
We’ve moved base again, this time to the Storms River Mouth Rest Camp, in the Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route National Park. We’re enjoying a prime view from our seaside campsite.
Merry Christmas, Everyone! We had a lovely summer Christmas Day out in nature here at Wilderness. We hope that, if you celebrate the holiday, that you had a blessed time with friends and family too wherever you are.
We spent the morning at the world-renowned Cango Caves near the town of Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo. We’ll be telling and showing you more of the Cango Caves in January.
We’ve arrived safely at our next base – the Ebb-and-Flow Rest Camp in the Wilderness section of the Garden Route National Park – though our initial explorations were severely curtailed by intermittent rain showers.
Today was our final full day camping on the game farm Aloe Canyons near Swellendam. Tomorrow we’re moving our camp eastwards, to the Wilderness section of the Garden Route National Park.
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