My Journal of Africa.......Gill

We arrived at Richards bay from Mauritius on 04th November 2011 and found the mall where I bought a rubber snake and a slingshot to scare off the monkeys which were going onto peoples boats and stealing food. The snake was green. Dad hung it

up in the cockpit and it actually worked! Our boat was the only one that did not have monkeys aboard.

"WHISKERS", the catamaran tied up next to us said the monkeys stopped coming onto their boat as well.....

My slingshot fired jellybeans and dried soya beans at bits of bread I put in the water and also at Marnix from "INO" who chased me and gave me a Doctor Shock. I had just shot him in the butt and ran like crazy but he caught me.

After a week in Richards Bay we left at midnight for Durban.

During the sail we were kept company all day by Humpback whales and schools of dolphins, plus Dad got snotted by a whale.(that means he got squirted by whale snot)

We arrived in Durban on 11th November 2011 11/11/11, (Rememberence Day) and the next day I went up to the yacht club and found a games room called the youth room where I met a kid called Sheldon from "Robins Nest", another kid called Lennard

and his sister Emily. Later on I met two sisters (Aussies) called Millie and Ella from "MUNEERA".

after a few weeks in Durban we went on a trip to a safari! Where we stayed in cabins and saw Rhinos, Giraffes, Buffalo, Buck and a Elephant's butt.

One Saturday we all went to the market with Gerald and Dianna from "WHISKERS" and I adopted a kitten called TIZER (his original name was Tiger). The rest of the time in Durban was spent going to Braai's (BBQ's) and then there was Christmas. I got

two PS3 games, a new laptop, a blue sailing knife to wear on watch and a photo frame plus a heaps of other stuff.

While in Durban we hired cars and went to game parks and the Drakensberg Mountains and I patted a Cheetah. All in the rain. Durban had lots of death, robberies and order issues.

We left Durban on 04th January 2012 for Knysna which only took about 2 days and nights as we found the Agulhas Current and got an extra 5 knots of boat speed. We were lucky with the weather and made it in one hit as sometimes it takes weeks to

get around the bottom of Africa. The weather is very bad here. On the way we saw more whales, dolphins and lots of birds. It was like a documentary movie. Going into Knysna was tough. There were breakers and huge waves of water. It was horriffic

but when we got in it was calm. We tied the boat to the visitors wharf and went and had breakfast in the yacht club with Joseph and Marci from "HORIZON" and Steve from "ROVER of TACOMA"

Later we went out to anchor and I spent lots of time at the Internet cafe in town. A week later we left for Hout Bay.

Knysna was very pretty. At Knysna we hired a car, I went cycling up a moutain with "INO" and I talked to the elephants at the park and it rained again so we had pizza.

Two days at sea and boom; we arrive at Hout Bay after going around the Cape of Storms as well as Cape Agulhas, where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet. Dad, Keely and I jump from one ocean to the next. wow.

At Hout Bay the smell is horrid because of the fishing fleet and the African Fur Seals. They gave us the very end berth (which sucked because it got windy at 68 knots). We had power and water here and ate at some fish restaurants and Dad and I had

our birthdays here then after two weeks we left for St Helena Island in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. So here we are now. It's good to have birthdays.........