(Monday)
The problem with Uvongo (the same as for most of the coastal area around here) is that it’s been a bit smashed up by those recent storms. The car park has been halved in size, and the beach path now nothing more than a neat pile of bricks on the verge.
The beach, however, is lovely. There’s a waterfall that gushes down into a little lagoon on the beach. This joins into the sea in a kind of water from all angles way… We paddled in the breakers and enjoyed the warmth of the hot sun! It makes such a change from the freezing temperatures of the mountains, and L’s woolly hat (bought in desperation in Underberg) had been definitely relocated to the suitcase.
R wins the ‘beady eye’ award for spotting the rock hyraxes on the area just beyond the lagoon. Otherwise known as ‘dassies’, we had thought they only inhabited Table Mountain, but no… there was a large colony settled in KZN too it appears. They are kind of like enormous guinea pigs, they come out and sit on the rocks and get warm, or chase each other round. They climb into the plants growing out of the rocks and munch on the leaves. They seemed impervious to the children playing nearby… and then suddenly one of them decided enough was enough, and with a high-pitched squeak, set off a mass exodus of the dassies; in a flash they all vanished from view. L tells me that dassies have the amazing ability to suck in their ribcage and get into the smallest of crevices, I think they were showing off their ability…
L&R left us this afternoon to return to the UK. It was sad to see them go, we’ve had such a fabulous time together…
The problem with Uvongo (the same as for most of the coastal area around here) is that it’s been a bit smashed up by those recent storms. The car park has been halved in size, and the beach path now nothing more than a neat pile of bricks on the verge.
The beach, however, is lovely. There’s a waterfall that gushes down into a little lagoon on the beach. This joins into the sea in a kind of water from all angles way… We paddled in the breakers and enjoyed the warmth of the hot sun! It makes such a change from the freezing temperatures of the mountains, and L’s woolly hat (bought in desperation in Underberg) had been definitely relocated to the suitcase.
R wins the ‘beady eye’ award for spotting the rock hyraxes on the area just beyond the lagoon. Otherwise known as ‘dassies’, we had thought they only inhabited Table Mountain, but no… there was a large colony settled in KZN too it appears. They are kind of like enormous guinea pigs, they come out and sit on the rocks and get warm, or chase each other round. They climb into the plants growing out of the rocks and munch on the leaves. They seemed impervious to the children playing nearby… and then suddenly one of them decided enough was enough, and with a high-pitched squeak, set off a mass exodus of the dassies; in a flash they all vanished from view. L tells me that dassies have the amazing ability to suck in their ribcage and get into the smallest of crevices, I think they were showing off their ability…
L&R left us this afternoon to return to the UK. It was sad to see them go, we’ve had such a fabulous time together…
