Today is my birthday, I am 15 years old. I had retrieved some wrapped presents out of the depths of the bakkie last night which had been buried for three weeks. I had the pleasure of unwrapping them this morning and found they were still all in one piece.
Lesley made me a lovely breakfast of sweetcorn fritters, mushrooms, last night’s rump steak, eggs and onions washed down with 100% orange juice. Yum! It was a leisurely breakfast and afterwards we had cappuccinos at the coffee shop. While there, we watched a turtle dove doing a mating dance and a scruffy looking woodpecker (Crested barbet) chasing them all away. The peacocks and peahens where also scratching around.
It was 10 o’clock by the time we set out on our next recommended drive which was into and around the gorge formed by the river. The road starts off narrow and hugs the mountain, passing huts, cattle, horses and sheep. It eventually winds down into the gorge, across the river and then climbs back up the mountain on the other side. The views from there are magnificent. We then opted to keep on going around in a sort of circle back to Malealea. It was 12H30 by the time we got back and both of us were feeling rather tired so we went for a short nap.
Then it was time for tea and getting up to date with the blog. Tomorrow we are back in SA so we can update the website again.
Cappucino for your birthday, brew.
Scruffy little crested barbet
New breed of dalmation
Did we come along there??
Malealea in the distance
Please remember to only drink water upstream
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