It was another raining day when I woke up. Was told I could
have stayed but felt like I needed to push on. I was at the point now where I
was really just wanting to finish this journey. Its kinda silly wanting
something as amazing as this whole trip to end but that’s just how I felt in
parts. Part of the journey was to actually complete it as that was my goal so
it had to be complete, if that makes sense.
I thanked the Vorsters and was off once again. And like clockwork it
started raining. I was needing to pee quite a lot once I took off as the two
cups of coffee I drunk earlier were now working their way through my system. I
stopped at SANSA, the South African National Space Agency as I didn’t know this
was actually here and it looked interesting.
Today was Wednesday and it was the only day they do tours, but I was not
going to stay till 11am for it to start so I just checked out the main monitors
in the hall way area. Some cool stuff with real time images of the sun. If ever
I’m in Knysna on a Wednesday at 11am Ill give the tour another chance.
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| Chow little dog. |
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| Thanks again you two. Stay was sweet like honey. haha, then I was kicked out for such a lame joke. Joking. |
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| Science that happens in space is observed in the space inside there. |
Another cloud burst happened as I headed inland a bit before
turning towards Kleinmond. Did some shopping there and had a lekker rest while
I waited out some of the rain. Was pretty chilly standing outside. The I rode
into Bettys Bay which looked like quite a lekker chilled place. Houses
scattered all over the place with some amazing views. I came to the end of
Bettys Bay and while resting met a guy called Ralph and his kids. He was a
wonderful guy who was interested in what I was doing and offered me a tour of
Bettys Bay which I accepted. I had thought I was done with gravel roads 3 days
ago but I was on them again but this time for the last time. Little trek was
nice as he showed me the residence of another well known adventurer before I
said thanks and carried on with my journey.
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| Invisible whale route is more like it. |
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| Kleinmond. |
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| Entering Bettys Bay. |
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| Looking back at Bettys Bay. |
It was almost 3 and I still had about 30-35kms to go before
I reached Strand and I was told that the road leading there along the coast was
like Chapmans Peak. That kinda freaked me out as I was imagining big hills and
such while trying to remember Chapmans from when I rode it more than a year ago
but it turned out to be amazing with no need to have fretted about it in the
first place. It was a bit of a slow trek getting to the coast due to the wind
but it was so great once I was there. The setting suns rays through the clouds
with ocean to my left with these rock faces to my right. And the road wasn’t
anywhere near as bad as I thought it would be. It was epic and I was stoked to
have been there at that time.
Distance 90kms
Day 131: Strand
Stayed in Strand. Got a moerse headache as I lay in bed too
long. Was raining outside big time but it cleared up and I went out to get me a
new an extra memory card as I had just filled up my last one yesterday. Spent
the rest of the day reading and browsing through magazines before Johan came
back. Then we checked out the movie Pacific Rim which was flipping awesome.
Giant robots fighting giant monsters never looked so good.
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| This stuff is soo goooood. Who knew a mans suffering could taste so good. |
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