Weather Window Lost!

19th August

We got picked up by my mom's cousins and drove to their house. We had a great bath, a braai, drank, played computer games and slept over. The next day we drove to another cousin Doreen's house who had a lot of dogs.

21st August

We took the "Walk of Death" and got in the "escaped convicts car". She drove like a lunitic again but this time we almost crashed into a Mercedes which seem to be very popular here. We got to the post office but they did not have my dad's book yet. We walked home after eating hamburgers.

22nd August

We went to the cold showers then to Doreen again for a braai and I played laptop.

23rd August

We saw a weather window to leave so we called the people who were delivering our book, they had not delivered it yet so we have to stay and wait for the next weather window so Yrumoar can not go around the world yet again.

Visitors and visiting sites!

8th  August

I did school and learnt about cube and square roots. We left the boat and I had a cold shower. We got back and I played laptop, Rauen watched movies and my dad fibreglassed.

12th  August

It was another rush this morning. My mom's old friends were coming, so I brushed my teeth, brushed my hair, ate breakfast and cleaned the boat. 8 people were coming so we went up to great them some of them were late. When we got the the wa,k of death, Aunty Max could not go on it. So they headed over to the yacht club and we motored across tot he yacht club to fetch them. The late arrival visitors did not want to go on the dinghy so they went home.

15th August

We went to the museum, we saw fish, fish and more fish, mammals, dinosaurs, birds and humans. Manys shells and shipwrecks. By the time we were done we were out of energy, got into the crazy taxi that moved warp speed along straights and light speed around corners and flew when it hit potholes and speedbumps. It did not slow down for either, it just kept speeding. Now I know how an escaped mass murdering convict drives when he is getting chased by cops.

 

I am sure more than once people thought they were in the middle of a movie scene. I wonder if the taxi service, Eagle taxi's is for convicts that are on probation for sppeding too much and I m sure that the South African flag is not there anymore for the fire she makes while speeding burns it away.

The next day we were going to be driven by friends, we enjoyed our ride and shopped for a few things, 1 whole trolley is little to my mom but to me I think we go overboard with food. We went to their home, ate quiche and came home.

16th August

We decided to go to Nahoon Point nature reserve, the weather looked right to go. We were excited to go, Nahoon point had blowholes and a cave, it was a 12km hike. We ate breakfast and walked on a wooden walkway and saw rocks, we ended up rock climbing, miountain climbing and going along small edges and walking.
When we had finished we decided to walk the whole 20km home. When we got home we slept.

Heading inland

5 August

We woke up to a rush. Brushing teeth, eating breakfast and all the other things we had to do so we would be ready to meet my mom's old friends. As we were getting ready a man came over on a dinghy and spoke to my parents, they offered him coke and they spoke while we got ready.

We went to my mom's friends house but first we had to walk across the walk of death...
Getting off our boat is not a problem...
First step over the rail with 1 foot then the other, if you were on the sailing course you would be told to Never Ever, I mean NEVER EVER do this.
Then you climb on to the steel boat next to us, go over his railing.
the next obstacle is the ladder. I know you are thinking a ladder but it is not that simple.
Climb over the steel rails of the steel boat and step on a rusted step on the ladder, then up to a normal step. 1 wrong step could kill you.
You eventually reach your goal, a run down, rotting, cracking walk-on. You must walk on 4 planks at a time as some are missing and others if you step on them brake and crack, then you get to a gate that is locked, luckily only with a piece of wire. You untie the wire with haste because it is the only thing keeping you from freedom.

 6 August
I started Grade 7 school work, by school work I mean Maths.

Later we called Eagle Taxi's. It came. The car had tigers on it and a tiger airfreshener hanging in the front.
We arrived at the shopping centre, we ate Wimpy, went to Pick 'n Pay and bought shopping.
When we got home I watched a movie, Rauen skated and my parents sat outside talking.

7 August

We called Eagle Taxi's again.
They picked us up, no tigers this time. We drove to Eagle taxi's home base where we were invited to go yesterday.

We saw monkeys, parrots and other things. We spoke to them and after the 1 hour tour we went from shop to shop collecting cigarettes and diesel.

We came back to the boat and Rauen watched a movie which we all eventually started watching with him.