Lions and Tigers and Bears............Oh My!

OK well, not quite but here is a list of animals we have seen this week

Whales

Cheetahs

Penguins

More whales

And these things.................??

Lord only knows what these dudes are, but one of 'em was eating - yep EATING a straw, so they get my vote for being the most whacked out animals I have seen this week. I am thinking they are definitely related to guinea pigs or rats.

So apologies about there being no Whale pics, but believe me, my camera is not good enough to take pics of whales and I had a pair of binoculars welded to my face for quite a long time, in fact an almost headache inducing amount of time. There are no words to describe how flipping cool it is to see a REAL LIVE WHALE – we were in Hermanus today, which is just the Whale watching capital of the world. The weather was gorgeous, the place was gorgeous and we went to the most wonderful seafood restaurant right on the rocks. Basically we had wine, food and whales errrrrr perfection methinks.

We have been up to all sorts this week, we've been to the V&A Waterfront, check out the view...the clouds were tipping over the edge of Table Mountain like a witches cauldron,

After that we went to the Aquarium and saw the most fab stuff including this chap, I love Rockhoppers

On Monday, we decided to take a tour of the Winelands with a guy in a private tour bus, we asked him if he would take us through one of the townships. We were expecting a 90 mile an hour trip through but it wasn't like that at all. We'd seen the townships on the way in from the airport and were shocked, there are huge areas of run down housing and, well, what I can only describe as shacks. You would think that these are just lawless awful places to be, but although there is poverty things aren't quite what you might think. I have no photos, I felt it would not be the right thing to do, I am also not politician so I am not going to make a comment, but it was worth seeing and we did it in a very respectful way.

We went on to the Winelands from there and tasted lots of wine, we didn't spit any out (hic). We visited Stellenbosch for 4 Wine tastings, here we all are

Check out the skirt, a la Sienna Miller about 2 years ago with her trend setting gypsy skirt and vest combo – OK so I look more like I ate Sienna Miller here!!!

Cheetahs do not like BIG skirts,we visited the Cheetah outreach centre and saw the most beautiful animals, but one hissed at me when I crouched down near to it on the other side of the fence. I was quickly told by the keeper to stand up! Here though is one of the baby Cheetahs.... very cute and just lying chilled out right up against the fence.


Phew – a mammoth post, thanks for sticking around.