One thing I forgot to mention about Storm's River was that when we went to eat at a local hotel's restaurant. There were flyers and ads everywhere for the international Elvis impersonater festival!! What the hell.... in some tiny little town in the middle of South Africa this weekend, there will be Elvis impersonaters from all over the world. Then whomever is good enough to qualify wins a spot at the World cup in England. What the hell.... don't even know what to say about that.

We finally reached Knysna, the next day, and it was a great little place. We got in around noon and then walked around town for the afternoon. Becca wanted to do the boat tour out to the heads (where the ocean feeds the lagoon), but it wasn't running. It's the winter season so there aren't many tourists about. Just crazy us!! So we rented a 'Tuk Tuk', which is those crazy little 3 wheel car things that they have all over Thailand. They just happen to have 3 in Knysna. He took us around to the islands in the lagoon and out to the viewpoints to see the heads. Soo beautiful. The South African Navy still bring their ship Captains there to do their final test. It's to get into the lagoon without sinking the ship. Really neat!! There have been 42 ship wrecks that are logged, and who knows how many aren't. It would be a really neat place to get qualified to Scuba dive and go down to see all the wrecks. Very historic little town for sure!! After the driving all day we went downtown and had an amazing dinner. There just so happens to be a 'Pink Lorrie' Festival going on this weekend in Knysna. Which for everyone who doesn't know is a gay festival. HA ha hahahahaha!!! So the town shops and bars and reastaurants are all getting festive for the occasion and covering everything with pink boa's and feathers. Soo weird.... who knew we would find all these random crazy festivals touring the Garden Route in South Africa?? What a good laugh for me and Beck!!

Today we went to the Elephant Sanctuary this morning and that was really great. Back in the day they hunted the elephants in the Knysna area to almost extinction... there were only 3 left!! So they now look after them and have about 12. They are trying really hard to build the herd up, but the elephants are captive now and could never live in the wild again. They have had 2 births at the sanctuary, and the rest of the elephants have come in from northern south africa as orphans. We got to feed them and cuddle them, and get loads of pics. I forgot I had an apple in my pocket for myself as a snack, and a 22 year old female elephant could smell it. So she kept pulling on my jacket and wrapping her trunk around me until I realized it was the apple she was after!!! Soo funny!!!! Smart girl!!

Then it was on the Bazbus and made our way down further south to George, and took another shuttle inland to Oudtshoorn. This afternoon will be pretty low key, but tomorrow morning the adventure begins. I am booked to hit up a Wildlife park where I will be petting cheetahs, and white tigers. After that I will be attempting to ride an Ostrich at one of the many Ostrick farms that we came here to see. Wish me luck everyone!! Ha ha!!

Tomorrow afternoon I catch the bus to Capetown where we get in quite late. Then for May 1st I will be taking a tour to Stonetown, I think is it, to see the penguin colony. Then for the evening up to the top of Table Mountain to watch the sun go down over the 2 oceans that meet.

It's been a busy few days, but I am having a great time. Not really looking forward to the 2 days of airplane rides but am really looking forward to coming home.

Talk to you all soon!!!

Love you B