Our next port of call was "Port Saint John's" on the Wild Coast of Eastern Cape of Africa. We had to drive about 10 hours to get there from Knysna. Below are some of the sights we saw along the way. Street performers in the middle of the traffic at peak hour, people sitting by the road waiting for the combi van taxis, shoppers, laundry drying, houses new and old. Never a dull moment!
Ahhh… then we arrive at Port Saint John's! Very much like Mozambique. Stunning seaviews, but dirty streets, potholes everywhere, many beggars, poor living conditions and mangy dogs. After driving ten hours, we reached our destination at "Lodge on the Beach". It was not our usual standard of accommodation, but with one very tired driver and passenger, we decided to stay. On day two of being greeted by the four dogs and two cats who shared the abode, we decided to find something else less pet friendly, cleaner and with a bathroom in the room!
The Lodge on the Beach - BLAH! A dive! ;0(
Breakfast with a view at Delicious Monster!
Trying to take a selfie!
Yikes! Beautiful beaches, but "Second Beach" at Port Saint Johns is
the most dangerous beach for shark attacks in the world!
The markets at PSJ.
The one and only diesel and petrol station in the area!
One happy shopper heading home with her groceries.
Buying a wooden walking sticks from a local craftsman by the side of the road.
The sights you see and must be careful of when driving in Africa!
`Looking down on PSJ from the airstrip on top of the mountain!
Mr.O. pretending he is a pilot in our car and driving down the middle of the airstrip!
Boys will be boys!
Our second accommodation t PSJ. Clean. Tidy. Ensuite. Bed and breakfast.
And a helicopter in the back yard!!!!
Beautiful coastline (just don't go in the water!) Cows, cows, cows are everywhere!
We had gone to PSJ to see The Sardine Run. This is when …. Every year, between the months of May and July, many millions of silvery sardines travel north from the cold southern oceans off South Africa's Cape Point, hugging the shore as they make their way up along the coastlines of the former Transkei (northern Eastern Cape) and KwaZulu-Natal in what is commonly known as the annualSardine Run.
Visible even by satellite, these famous sardine shoals travel in seething masses stretching for up to fifteen kilometres in length, three and a half kilometres wide and nearly forty metres deep.
The Sardine Run is a spectacle in itself, but add to this, hundreds of predators arriving en mass to partake in a feeding frenzy, and you get a wildlife extravaganza rivalling the Great Migration of the wildebeest across the African savanna. Birds, dolphins, sharks, whales and game fish all gorge themselves on sardine's-a-plenty, putting on a show that will undoubtably live on in memory for a lifetime! (From Sardinerun.com)
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