South Africa: Day 16

We Heard that around Mosselbay you had a few places where you could do sand surfing, which I thought sounded pretty cool. So when we got there we were decided to find out how and where we could do this. But first, coffee we wanted to go somewhere at the front-line and ended up in a very local “braai plaats” you could say that it’s a local barbecue, people queue up to order food from the barbecue, if you really want to do local that’s probably the place for you, but the sun got to hot for us and we decided to continue our quest to find the sand surfers.

After a few searches on internet and driving through town we found out that the store where they organized the tours had closed, but he still organized tours by phone or mail, I guess it made things easier for him. 

My dad on the other hand insisted and we found this backpackers lodge that also organized day excursions of different kinds. We asked her and she organized a trip to the dunes to go sand surfing for tomorrow morning, actually she just called the number and gave my dad the phone, but it was fine, we had something organized.

When we finished everything we had to do in Mosselbay we started heading towards our lodge, it was another game lodge, but our expectations for this one were quite low (coming from the really wildlife part of the country to the part which was better known for cities, it makes sense, no?) But once we got there we were surprised. A giraffe was lying down, resting, just at the reception of the lodges!!! We got to touch it and everything.

During the lunch they explained us how the dinner was going to be served. I know that I talk a lot about food, but from what I've seen the South Africans just go from one meal to another one, not really giving any time to rest. Anyway, back to the explanation. They told us that the dinner was going to be a braai ( a barbecue) they would come over at our lodge at around 5:30-6 to light out fire and bring our food, to leave us alone for the rest of the night.

The warthog sneaking in our room

As we expected the fire took a while to eventually turn all the wood into charcoal, and once it was charcoal we were ready to braai, we had a lovely family time during that braai and really enjoyed being able to do some things ourselves.

And yet again we got unexpected visit after our dinner. Not to long after we finished out last steak we heard some noises: a dog and a WARTHOG were running towards us, not looking at other lodges, not casually walking by, no, straight up running towards our lodge.

As it got there it jumped on our terrace and just started to walk around us looking for something to nibble. We gave it a bone but the dog started a fight with him over it and ran off with it, so the warthog decided to have a look in our lodge, we had to rush and close everything to keep it out and eventually it got bored and left, but again, it didn't leave towards another lodge, no, as soon as it left our terrace it left towards the exit of the little park, tell me that’s not crazy.