Day 10

Crocodile Aitkin, originally uploaded by simongman.

Today was the day of the Garden Route run east up to the Wilderness. We set out from Simon’s Town on the 450km journey passing through various small towns and George the largest town on the Garden Route (named after George III). For this six hour coach trip the road (N2) ran parallel with the coast and Cape Fold Mountains passing through the expansive farmland landscape of the Southern Cape province that included various crops, ostrich and sheep farms. Whilst travelling on the road you really do get a feeling of how vast this country is as you travel km after km with very few vehicles on the road.

Arriving at the Fairy Knowe Hotel the boys were pleasantly surprised by the number of tourist pursuits that were available to them not to mention its beautiful setting. Infact it was Mr Trenhaile and Mr Harrison that took to the water in a pedalo hotly pursued by a flotilla of various craft. As we settled in we had an opportunity to hang out the rugby shirts and shorts that had been cleaned by the staff at the Simon’s Town Boarding House as they were still slightly damp. The boys played tennis, pool, darts, table tennis and touch rugby before their evening meal in the hotel that was visited by the Queen some 60 years ago.

The action continued after dinner as we took a short coach trip into George where we watched the Movie Die Hard 4.0. A very good end to a long day. I am writin this blog on the morning of Day 11 on the way to the Cango Caves. Mr Harrison will help write up day 11s on the one and a half hour coach trip back. I have arranged with the hotel to upload the two day's reports on their office computer as there is no public access to the internet.

For more photos from today goto:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simongman/sets/72157600588489291/