Holiday Wednesday - Planes, Dolphins and Pistols

First was our trip to Port Elizabeth to meet Mel and James before heading out on our hols to Addo Elephant park.

We got to sample the delights of Cape Town’s domestic terminal [shed] which was a charm.We we’re flying on what appeared from the outside to be a Lear Jet, but with 48 other people on board. I loved it, Nicky hated it.



Spotted an awesome looking pool from the plane which has now got itself marked on Extreme Sports Map. We also saw a group of dolphins in the bay as we flew in.

Other notables were the signs that you rarely see in a UK airport. Nice to know those requiring they gun to travel with them don’t have to put their fellow travellers through the ordeal of seeing their Holstered Colt 45 as they stretch to put their luggage in the overhead lockers.



Having an hour or so to kill we headed for the aquarium and got the tail end of the Dolphin Show – a classing anyone’s book if you ask me.



We met up with Mell and James, loaded the poor Polo with all our gear and got on the road out of PE, next stop Addo Reserve



Stopping for provisions just outside the park we were suitably reminded of being out in the sticks. Whereas the Spar in the UK tends to have things like lottery tickets, cigarettes and Pannini Football stickers, this one had an abundance of Torches, Knives and Gun Magazines – One particular advert in particular caught my eye. The ad for a torch, printed in lo-fi black and white created the scenario that if you didn’t have a good torch you wouldn’t be able to shoot any assailant who came your way. The illustration depicted an obviously white man taking aim at and dazzling a crowbar wielding man of non white origin to demonstrate the power of this particular brand of torch.

I now wish I’d got myself decked out with the gear including a blade and a torch the reasoning for which will become apparent later.