LOST?

You know you're in trouble when you're lost, like i was, then you see this sign in the only town you've passed for hours.

GULP!?!

THE EASTERN (ES)CAPE

A shot i got of the 'Hole in the wall', Coffee Bay.

WOW. Hey!?!

THE SECRET BATH

Just had to boast about this one!

Whilst staying in the most amazing place 'Bulungula', about hour and a half from Coffee Bay, I was woken up at about 5am to be escourted through the early morning drizzle to find, prepared for me - an outdoor, fire heated bath at the very top of a dune with a view of the misty ocean. Turns out along with that comes a complimentary fine maiden with a flask of hot tea.
It was brilliant, i mean a bath that just gets hotter!! Needless to say we enjoyed it until we turned into albino prunes.

African Styles!

JEZEBEL LIVES....

My doggie is doing much better. I love her and we play so nicely. She has gained weight, her coats softer and shinier and she goes to the toilet in about the same place now and then in my flat. This weekend we make the second leg of our journey to just outside Pretoria to my Mom's plot. It will be a haven for little Jeze and she will have a good life. I will miss her, i plan to visit as much as i can... she continues to make me laugh, funny dog.

I FOUND A NEW AFRICAN FRIEND

Ladiers and gentlemen, this is Jezebel. I found her in the deep regions of the Eastern Cape,near Coffee Bay. She looked like she could do with a lift in life so, i am currently her guardian and am in the process of her rehabilitation... she is very funny.

RAINY MONDAY IT WAS.

We realised that it was an excessive amount of rain that came down yesterday, being on top of Durban North i don't think we got the full picture!!!

West street wasn't so lucky. Had the rain continued today, a lot of people in KZN would have been in trouble.

UMZUMBE

Set out on a surf trip this weekend. Destination Hibiscus coastline. Stopped of at Scottburgh for a bit of a warm up session which turned out into a 2hr indulgence that had Andre my mate and i crawling out the water.

Final destination, Umzumbe. Locals will have my head for promoting spots in terms of creating crowds, but, i believe in sharing... It was here that a sequence of unfortunate incidents occured. Started off with a freak wave knocking me off my feet while waiting to enter the backline from the rocks... it was funny but when i got up the blood streaming from varies areas of my body made me realise that could be the abrupt end to my surfing for the weekend!! Sat down and noticed that i was slowly beginning to stop leaking and said stuff it, entered the water and unexpectly the wash moved out a lot quicker than anticipated leaving me paddling on rock surface for a moment and gifting me with another gash or two, lovely!

Got out to my mates Andre and Luke who decided to keep their distance from this trawling piece of surfer chum... found out later that divers had actually spotted a 2.1M shark hanging out... had i known hmmmm?

10 minutes later caught a nice clean right, decided to pull out, went airborne and WHAM... got the board in the ribs, never before had i received impact like that, there! So, that was the end to my surfing on my weekend's 'surfing trip'. I now am recovering and word has it i should be good to go in about... 6 weeks, lovely!!

Pororoca

Caught a doci on this, SABC2 Sunday. I was blown away, yet another recently realised natural phenomenon. Looked into it and realised the doci to be 3 years old but never the less its early days still with regards to surfing the Amazon!

One day when its more accessible, I wouldn't mind giving it a go!

Ps. watch out for the 4mm catfish that apparently can swim up your pork sausage and lay eggs within you nad sack!

Check it out and learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pororoca