Sunday 4th January

Well what was supposed to be a nice relaxing day today turned out to be quite an exhausting one. We decided to walk along the beach from Big Bay - where John Lives - to Melkbos which is the next place down the coast. We thought it would be a nice Sunday stroll but it was further than expected and took over 2 hours of walking in quite soft sand a lot of the way. When we finally reached Melkbos we made our way off the beach - and found ourselves behind locked gates so couldn't get onto the road. We had to go back over the dunes and to the beach again and carry on for another half hour before we finally reached the public beach area and civilisation. We had a very well deserved cold drink or 3 and a pizza. Even the dogs were exhausted! Once we had recovered we decided to take a taxi back - but couldn't even find one of those going the right way. In the end a restaurant called one for us and we eventually arrived home about 5 hours after we left it. The road trip back was about 8km so the beach walk must have been more as the road is direct and does not follow the coast - no wonder we were all tired. Tomorrow we plan to go up Table Mountain - as long as the weather holds and there are no clouds over it!