Harriette Entry
This morning we had a lazy time in bed, until 8:30, reading our books. Then we had some yummy breakfast of toast and headed off to our local beach at Blue Rocks. We went around 9:30 to catch the low tide.
Surprisingly, our sand model of Vindolanda that we made yesterday was still standing, the tide JUST missed it! After that surprise, we went on a beach stroll until we reached blue rocks (they really are blue) then we climbed up with Mama and I leading the way to find some rock pools.
Mama kept getting worried thinking that we were going to get wet shoes, but we didn’t. As we climbed over barnacle infested rocks, we peered in lots of rock pools, all of different sizes. Some big, some small, also filled with shells and many unique creatures.
Together we spotted a great many animals, starting with barnacles mussels, limpets, starfish, crabs, urchins and anemones. We even held the limits and starfish, and crawled over the mussels and barnacles. Also we found a shallow pit, with tons of starfish all different colors, I counted 15 in all. It was like a rainbow!
Then we decided to walk up to a view point, and got a geocache, not realizing it was quite a hike. Fortunately for us we found the geocache and the view was lovely. Walking down certainly wasn’t pleasant on the knees though.
Afterwards, we drove to Tsitsikamma for some lunch and Zip line adventure. We chose a 60’s diner and the food was amazing! To drink we all had a milkshake, me and Tata Vanilla, Maxi custard and Mama chocolate. To eat, Me and Sissa shared a chicken nachos plate, Mama had beef nachos and Tata had sliders. Also to share we had some chips and a salad.
Maxine Entry
At 12 noon we arrived at Tsitsikamma, an hour early, so we sat down at a diner and had lunch. The diner had checkered floors, pink walls and old school Cadillac’s inside the restaurant! It had pictures of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley on the walls as well as Duke box playing music. We all had delicious milkshakes - vanilla for Harri and Tata, chocolate for Mama and custard for me.
Harriette and I shared some cheesy nachos with chicken. Mama had chili beef nachos and Tati had my favorite, mini sliders! Sliders are mini burgers with different fillings.
Next was the Canopy Tour! Before we could go to the forest we had to have a safety briefing, an explanation with our guide of what to do in the tree tops. Then we got kitted out with harnesses, a hair net and a helmet. Our group had 7 people in it. We left the briefing room and got into a safari van that has an open top and you need to use steps to climb up into it. The van drove us to the beginning of the forest for the stat of the zip lines!
The zip lines were awesome,
The zip lines were cool,
The zip lines were fun!
So fun, so cool and so awesome I wish we had something like it at home! Each tree had a platform built around it up in the air, and from there we zip lined from one tree to another. At one place we had a ‘catwalk of fame’ which was a bridge between 2 trees too close together for a zipline, and too far to jump. I did a penguin walk across the bridge.
Funky facts:
- The highest platform was 20m above ground level
- There were 10 zip lines in the tsitsikamma canopy tour
- The longest zipline was 91m long, and this one was also the fastest!
- The trees were either Cape pear trees, yellow woods and one strangler fig tree that was over 600 years old!
- This shortest and slowest zipline was 17m long.
At first I was a little unsure, but after the tour ended I wanted to do it again!
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