An old Boeing 727 transported me from
Zimbabwe to
Jo'berg and the next day I arrived in Cape Town; a place I long wanted
to see. I travelled for a month, which included the classic Otter
trail hike, then Anne joined me for 1 week as we did the Garden route.
Anne then left to tour southern Africa and I spent 41 days at a
flight school in George. I had an amazing time and was very
lucky to survive a crash. Paul, an instructor and I then flew Anne to
Lesotho.
On leaving
Lesotho
we found ourselves stranded until a doctor gave us a lift; he
explained the stark reality of the Free State; the majority were dying
of AIDS. We hired a car and explored the Drankensburg and various battlefields. After
seeing the wildlife at St. Lucia we dived at Sodwana Bay and was very
disappointed; see
Dive Log. From there we
drove to
eSwatini.
We needed to pop back into South Africa whilst in
Mozambique to sort out my Oz visa. We explored Pretoria and visted the De Wildt Cheetah research centre.
On returning from
Mozambique we spent the final days of our
Odyssey
Express tour in the Drakensburg where we enjoyed trekking. We then flew to
my new home
Australia.
