Hello people! I am back from the beach, where it was cold and grey, to Johannesburg where it is cold and grey! Okay, to be fair, we have blue skies today - BUT it is still cold! We are all huddled around the gas fire trying to keep our paws warm so we can type updates....
Let me tell you about my trip to the South Coast. We set off early in the morning because it is a loooooooooooong drive to Amanzimtoti, which is in the beautiful province of Kwa-Zulu Natal (which used to be just Natal - but you know the name change obsession...).
The naming of Amanzimtoti (which means 'sweetwaters' ) is generally attributed to Shaka, the famous King of the Zulus. During one of his campaigns, he and his army stopped to rest here and he was brought a calabash filled with water from the local river. He sipped the water and said “Kanti Amanz'amtoti' meaning ' the water is sweet'. Not a fat chance I was tasting it to verify this, let me tell you! He tasted it in the days BEFORE there were a million and one factories built up stream.
Anyway, the car was loaded up and we were ready to go! Umm, you are not leaving me in the boot are you? I can't see anything from here....
I rode up front and saw lots of farms along the way. Sunflowers and maize (they call corn 'mielies' ha ha what a funny name!) in the Free Sate, pine trees and sugar cane in KZN (my paws are too cold to type Kwa-Zulu etc). It is amazing how different the provinces look from each other. but you are just going to take my word for that because I was feeling to car sick to take photos... Fi found one in her collection....
It took forever to get there, I kept bouncing up and asking if we were there yet. Matt said if I didn't stop I was going to travel in the boot. That was just getting out of Johannesburg...
We stayed in a holiday flat. I found a sunny spot to sit and stretch my legs after the long journey...
All to brief that was, the weather turned grey a few minutes later... This is the view when I turned around to look at the sea...
Our first stop was a birthday party for a little boy. I found some interesting sweets and climbed up to reach them.
Then some clever person moved the other container away and just LEFT ME DANGLING THERE!!! Well, I could either drop down empty handed or climb up and stay in the bowl...my tummy was as round as anything, of course I stayed in the sweet bowl till it was time for cake!
I got the first slice...delicious!
We eventually got to the beach when it brightened up a bit. Look what I found, wild animals!
The sun disappeared again...
I gave up trying to get a tan and watched this cargo ship for a bit...
Even that got boring, a beach with no sun is also no fun...except if you are a fisherman, they didn't seem bothered in the slightest....hmmm, fish fur supper!
The next day it just rained so we went to the nearest shopping mall. Retail therapy is good for cheering you up...