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Heading home

Yesterday went to Cape Point; the most southern tip of the Western part of Africa. Beautiful scenery and very ocean waters. There were signs everywhere for baboons "Baboons are dangers, Do NOT Feed" but unfortunately we didn't to see any :( But as we were driving to the Cape of Good Hope point we had to stop on the road because three huge ostriches were just eating at their leisure. Pretty cool I must say, even though I have seen them everyday for the last two weeks at Kwantu it was great seeing them in the true wild.

Today we begin our trek home!

Cape Town I have could of easily spent over a week here, so much to see and do even though it is not a huge city. This is by far one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen! And at Kwantu the most stars I have seen! '

Table Mountain

Thursday Garrett and I hiked table mountain. O just the most difficult hike one could do without ropes/rock climbing skills. When we stopped to by a map at the base of the mountain the lady was like "I really suggest you do not do the India hike, very ill-advised." I had not done any research on this hike, I left it all up to Garrett and trusted him. Well at one point he even told me prior that you have to use staples and chains to get up certain parts of the rock so I knew this wouldn't be easy. The 'trial' (basically non existent) was marked with yellow foot prints......well very very few and warn away footprints. Ugh that was the worst part. Not gonna lie this was the scariest/most adrenalin rush (well beyond the shark diving and bungee jumping scary) I have experienced. I even got panicked and had to have Garrett pull me up some of the rock ledges and at one point I lost all hope of the trail and had a minor break down freak out. But his calm personality helped me hold it together because going down what we had just climbed would have been complete terrifying challenging. Finally after we saw the repelling ropes from the highest point of the mountain I calmed down because I realized we were on the right path and so close to the top! Then we saw a group of seniors taking photos and I knew we arrived, I was beyond relieved and happy! I have not been so shook up about something like that. I'm glad it was challenging but I definitely understand all the signs saying you should be an experienced climber. Beautiful scenery all along the way and at the top. We took the cable car down for sure after all that. Funny thing is I didn't hurt myself on the climb but after we had a beer and a bite to eat I was walking out of the turning exit thing and nailed my thigh on one of the bars and actually hit it so hard I broke the skin and had blood running down my leg. It was so painful but funny because it was such a stupid klutzy thing to do. Ugh who would have thought of that as a danger. One of the employers got me a couple bandaids and asked me if the exit bars were ok LOL. Great day adventure for sure.

Great White Shark Cage Dive!!

On wednesday Garrett and I did a great white shark cage dive. It was the first trip they did out to sea in three days because the tides were finally calm enough. We set sail at noon and we cruise out to sea. The waves were huge and the boat just dropped at every wave. Such a tummy tickle every single time it was so fun! We then got out to the point where we started chumming the water with tuna fish guts and they tied up the tuna heads to bait the shark and a decoy seal. At first I was nervous no sharks were going to show up but in no time at all there were 2 sharks and then soon enough there were 8 great white sharks circling the boats. Garrett and I went in the cage in the second group of people (8 people in the cage at once and there were 31 people on our boat so suppose to be four groups but only ended up with three groups of people diving). I believe we had the best sharks in our group. We were in the cage very first, right at the point where the sharks were teased up against the cage by the tuna head. Two different times the sharks nose actually ended up in the cage and they latched onto the cage. Such a thrill!!!!!! Garrett has his go pro video camera so I'll be able to edit the footage and have some great video clips. Garrett ended up getting sick in the cage due to his sea sickness from riding on the boat (poor boy, first time at sea). But the nasty part was he ended up puking in the cage and then it floated all around us, ugh! But the fish were well feed then lol. After we had to get out of the cage he continued to puke over the side of the boat and I went back in the cage since not everyone wanted a chance in the cage or they got out early due to being too cold but I gladly jumped at the opportunity to get more time with the great whites. All in all it was an amazing adventure. The clarity under the water was wonderful but the crew was saying above water would have been much much better if the sun would have come out. I didn't care I was just thrilled to be out and have so many sharks circling the boat!!

Elephant Sanctuary

Sunrise