South Africa 2006

This blog is to cover my 12 week sabbatical to South Africa. The plan so far is to spend the first eight weeks at Esingeni, just outside Alicedale in the Eastern Cape on a Wildlife and Conservation course. Then the last four weeks will be spent catching up with a few friends and then meandering along the Garden Route from PE to Cape Town

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Graham Racher is a world traveller, photographer, gig goer and IT professional. He has travelled to all the seven continents and captures the natural beauty that he finds there. He also seeks out the diverse wildlife that London, his home city, has to offer to enjoy and document. And when the sun sets he often engages in another of his passions, live music, recording images if he isn't too busy enjoying himself.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

10/03 to 12/03

Sunday evening and on the way back from Hogsback; 180km drive from camp.
Apparently JRR Toltkein was inspired to write the Hobbit/LOTR from staying here. It certainly is very beautiful

Chatted to some students from Rhodes uni on the Friday night, but they all went off to their tents at midnight, and we went back to the bar.

I don't know what happened but I blame Miriam as she started it with the tequila slammers, then AJ with sambuka shots, Ben with vodka shots, so I went and got shots of Jagermeister and a red bull type liquer.

The long and short of it is I eneded up going to bed at 6 am, when it was getting light and ended up sleeping in one place or anothe during saturday to recover ... I amd not 18/20 anymore! The view from the lawn is nice, see below


The weekend before last we did go for a stroll around camp, it's about 3000 Ha but fantisatic views as you can see.

Saturday night we also had a braai


And we do actually do some hard labour, alien plant removal, or three hours in the sun cutting out a foreign tree that's sucking the soil dry. We recycle the wood though!

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