Well, it was time to hit the road again yesterday but we just couldn’t pull ourselves away from Sedgefield so we stayed an extra day and we all (the twins, Andy & the kids and us) went out to Italian last night then prayed for Pam’s operation tomorrow and reluctantly headed off this morning. First stop, an hour up the road, was “Birds of Eden”, a HUGE aviary, the best I’ve ever seen, full of rainforest and the most amazing variety of colourful birds that frolicked around like we weren’t even there, some actually landing on us as we walked along. Unfortunately, the little Cannon Ixus isn’t really built for this so we couldn’t really capture the breathtakingly bright and vibrant colours that defy description.
Next door is the “elephant sanctuary” where we got to walk with, touch and feed the elephants, and the kids got a little elephant anatomy lesson (school work for today – tick).
Last stop, the world’s highest bungee jump! For 17 years I’ve been dismissing opportunities to do one saying, “been there, done that”, but since Sunday was father’s day and the kids were keen to see daddy scared stupid, I figured if you’re gonna do it again, it might as well be the biggest in the world, Bloukranz Bridge South Africa, 216 metres of sheer terror, and that it was! Standing on the edge, toes peeking over, vertigo enveloping me and the countdown started, as did the adrenalin. The free fall is so long you pass through the terror and actually relax before the bungee snaps tight. I felt like I was Batman when he dives off a skyscraper. Very cool! Found a great little backpackers in Tsitsikamma National Park for the night. Pete
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