Well at long last we have arrived into a place which has wireless access - YIPEE!!! So I have a big catch up to do for you all. Thanks for all of the lovely messages and the photos from our 'followers' it is so fantastic for us to hear from you all and also see you.

We finally left Worcester for the last time on Thursday about 3.30pm after spending a night out our campsite Rivierplass outside of Worcester just to see if we had it all okay. Only a few angry words were spoken to each other and everything seemed to go AOK!!

Anyway we headed down to the Southermost point in South Africa - Cape Agulhas and arrived about 6.45pm - little wimps that we are was too late to camp so we booked into a hotel for the night. Simon it was the same one that you and Martin stayed in.

Anyway we had a good recommendation for restaurant and drove down to Casa de Sol for our meal (after a lovely shower and clean up)! Martin will take up the story now as he got a good laugh out of it! It was just getting dark and I asked Dee if she could get out of the car and watch me back the trailer into the carpark. All was going well until Dee decided to do a disappearing act down an open manhole! The cover was missing due to them having extreme flooding in the last few days.

I parked up and wondered why Dee was looking a bit wet and very angry (to say the least)!!! Fortunately the restaurant had a good washroom and we had spare clothes in the trailer for her. I did enquire if this was a one off occassion or be a regular occurance - and she informed me it was a one off!! Okay back to me now and the worst thing was that we think it was sewage - yukky!!!

Anyway had a lovely meal and a great night in the hotel. Next day Friday we headed off to the De Hoop Nature Reserve for a couple of days. What a beautiful reserve. It is about 36,000 ha and all fynbos, the reserve rolls right onto beautiful white sand dunes and a beautiful beach. The reserve has a few rare species which we saw being bontebok, cape mountain zebra and yellow mongoose. It also has heaps of eland, ostrich, grey rhebok and steenbok. Also lots of fantastic birds.

So after 2 fantastic nights at De Hoop we then headed off to Van Wyksdorp which is inland over some beautiful mountain passes. We stayed at Jeremy's mothers campsite (one of the owners of Bushwakka). It was a lot hotter inland and on the second day being 35 degrees we headed off to the Cango Caves which was great. Just did the standard tour as Jeremy had informed us that Martin would need to take a jar of vaseoline if we did the adventure tour - some very narrow places to get through!

We then went to an ostrich farm which was a bit of a disappointment and not quite what we expected - oh well at least we now know that ostrich meat is at it's best from 14 months on up till no more than 4 years! Actually just had ostrich steaks for dinner tonight and very nice they were too! Much more enjoyable than the farm.

We then headed towards the Garden Route today going through Ladismith and Oudtshoorn and then down to Knysna. What a lovely drive - the scenery we have been seeing in the last 5 days or so have been to say the least - stunning!!!

We are running quite a bit behind schedule so have decided to not do Angola this year as we will have to cut out too much in South Africa which we don't want to do. We will have to get back to it next year???##

Pauw & Sarah we went through George today and there was a huge fire happening - hope you are all okay?

I will sign off now and then try and attach a few photos to you all as well.

Love and hugs to all xxx