Today was a day of truly rubbish weather. I woke up at 6:30am and opened the curtains to discover low grey clouds, windy conditions and a belt of rain away in the distance across the bay. A quick google of the weather forecast on the hotels pc did not bring to much hope as rain was forecast to occur with either a 20% or 40% chance depending on which report you believed. I hoped for the 20% chance and that none of that percentage would be around at noon when we were due to be on our boat trip!
How wrong I was though. Heavy showers became more frequent and when we drove to the harbour to see what would be happening, we discovered that all cruises for the day had been cancelled due to poor weather; which was not surprising as it was raining at the time.
We did however manage to squeeze in 40 minutes land based whale watching from a point called Roman rock, before the the next downpour came. The remainder of the day was spent looking at the gloomy weather thinking how crap it was and hoping that it would significantly improve tomorrow. We have got ourselves booked on the noon trip again - weather permitting.
We have decided that if we don't make the boat trip tomorrow, we are off. We are going to visit a less publicised penguin colony at a place called Bettys bay. Nato, the hotel guy said that Boulders beach is getting very busy and that the penguins have been getting stressed out. So we have decided to give this alternative a go. Then we will be taking the scenic route along the coastal R44 road before heading inland to Stellenbosch. We will then be stopping in the winelands for 2 nights. After that we have another hotel booked in Cape Town. Cape Town was our 3rd choice location as we were hoping to stop further south around the False bay area, but we discovered that a lot of the reasonably priced places were booked up on the Friday night. So we ended up looking at Cape Town again. At least all of this Internet searching passed the time during the bad weather....
In the evening we went to a traditional restaurant call 'Annie st Kombuis'. The menu was strange in that you didn't have a menu at the table. They brought a big blackboard over to your table and stood the board on a chair for you to read what was on offer. Annie then came over and gave a description of each meal. Most sounded lovely , except the liver or the tripe........We went for a starter of Smoorsnoek (pieces of fish in potato and onion) followed by traditional stew (lamb curry) for me and venison (Kudu) pie for Erika. There was however still no bunny chow :-( Although the guest house owner from Plettenberg told me that I should be able to get this dish in one of the Malay cafes back in Main street, Cape Town. Which is quite handy really as that is near were we are stopping, so here's hoping :-)
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| How most of the day looked! |
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| Lookout bird. |
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| See the feint rainbow on the other side. |
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| This whale is on its back with its flippers up in the air. |
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| This whale is on its side and peeping at us. |
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| Rough seas. |
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