Saturday, January 07, 2006

Sunday(Jeffries Bay, Silly buses and more warm rain)

I felt a little rough in the morning, as we’d ended up sleeping over, and it would have been too far to walk back to the backpackers. I went surfing again, and loved it, and got to stand up a lot more, and also had a lighter board, so could turn more easily and catch waves, and Donna kindly gave us a lift back, and the hire was only 45R, bargain!. The other nice thing was being shown the best place to surf, so that we didn’t get carried out by rip tides, and warned not to even leave shoes on the beach as they might get stolen.
I got a lift to Shell Ultra City, the out of town petrol station, and the bus was 50 minutes late, I organised the backpackers to pick us up from Humansdorf, the closest stop to Jeffries Bay(J Bay), which turned out to be wrong as the bus now goes to J Bay, but it made me feel better that a body, Martin, who was coming to teach Sandboarding for his uncles company also got off there, he was going to be paid 80R a day to teach, and a person who did a lesson was going to be charged 250R for 2 hours.
The weather was quite lousy in J Bay and I wouldn’t recommend Jeffries Bay backpackers to anyone, I choose it as my first two choices were full, the problems with it were, loud music could be heard all night, it had a nasty damp smell in it, it wasn’t really near anything, and had a few beggars almost outside, which made me feel quite uncomfortable in the dark. The following day(Monday) was raining do decided to leave, plus also I could get a lift direct to Cinsta(Chinsta) with Ralf(a German who’d also stayed at Wilderness and worked in sales for Philips).
[Woman at reception at JBay BP reminded me of Kim]

The drive to Cinsta took a fair amount of the day, and relaxed in the afternoon, before going to have a great Indian meal(50R), and met two Irish lasses who were off next to Australia for at least a year, and were thinking of doing 3 months agricultural work, as you can then get a 2 year visa.

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