South Africa: Day 14

After waking up two or three times because of Sofie deciding to kick her legs on my head I decided it was about time to get up.

Today we were going to visit the Stormsriver mouth in the Indian Ocean, we headed down to the nature park where the river ended and after a good while of waiting we got in.

The park was apparently known for camping as well, as we passed a few camping spots before getting to the end of the road. Once there everything would be done by foot.

We started walking towards the hanging bridge where you had the best view over the mouth. On the way there ( it was about a 1 km walk) we saw a few very nice bays, but all natural ones, which they probably want to keep that way as there was no one on them. We got to the bridge, which was very unstable, and had a fantastic view over the river colliding with the sea, as well as tourists, lots of tourists.

Little hidden beach

After getting back to the initial bay we went for a swim and then we continued to the next beach, on this net beach there was a well-known beach restaurant, so well-known that he had a waiting list of about an hour, we were in no rush though. 

We had a walk around the beach while waiting and then we got told about the red water that they recently had (which caused dolphins and whales to stay away of the coast side). 

This red water incident occurred when a special kind of algae (sea weed) started over producing the nutrient that it usually produces, the reason being the temperatures being too high or something similar. This caused a lot of fish to die due to the lack of oxygen and well, it sort of formed a vicious cycle. The name comes from the water staining coper brown or reddish because of the nutrient of the algae.

Towards the evening we returned to the BnB and got some rest at the pool, only to get ready shortly afterwards for another early dinner. Today we were dining at a little bistro which was actually a polo club during the vast majority of the time, during our dinner the light went out, first for a little instance of 2-3 minutes but afterwards it looked like it had gone for a good while, so we took the opportunity and left (not without paying obviously)