The wild and colourful coast

With our small car we arrived (with a challenging drive) in Coffee bay on the wild coast. More than potholes on the road, we had to avoid dozens of animals “parked” in the middle of the road and a lot of mad pedestrians walking along the road… But what a scenic tour. The landscape looks like small mountains and everywhere you find very colourful houses : pink, yellow, green, orange, blue…. It is very pretty but if you don’t have a car you need to be really fit to walk there ;-) (and so we are….)

After we drove to Cintsa, another small town along the coast where we installed our tent. As we were there for Mandela Day, we gave 67 minutes of our time to an NGO called “African Angels” which has created a primary school for poor kids. Why 67 minutes? On the 18^th of July it’s Mandela’s Birthday and on that day South African people are pleased to give 67 minutes of their time to remember that Mandela gave 67 years of his life in fighting racial inequality.

At school we helped the youngest kids in their activities: drawings, painting, counting, reading… And of course we used the break to play. They showed us a new version of “I lost a letter” and we teached them “the master”. A lot of fun, a lots of smiles… All what we like ;-)

At last we moved to Jeffreys Bay, a town well known by surfers for its “supertubes”. And we were lucky to watch (in live) the finale of the Billabong Surf Contest which takes place in July each year. It’s very impressive to see pros in huge waves…but soon you’ll discover how good WE are ;-)