How to ruin a walk

There's one sure fire way of ruining a walk in the woods; and that's dog poop. Cecelia plantation has too much dog poop. South Africans clearly like scratching poop of their shoes with a stick more than they like being socially responsible.

Butterfly

Cecelia Plantation pt 2

We went back to Cecelia plantation again for a bit of a walk. This place is pretty awesome, primarily because it's a huge forrest but also for the fact that probably some of the most amazing trees i've ever seen are being felled for what appears to be no reason..Pretty sad really..

Photo Competition

The Cape Argus weekend runs a photo competition each week thinly disguised as a restaurant promotion. The winners each week are some of the weakest photographs you've ever seen - Nicky herself commented that she thought she could take a better photograph. So I've decided to enter; not really for the prize, but more for the glory..

Here's this weeks entry...Hopefully we'll be dining out on this one...ha ha

2 Days to go and we're on holiday woooo

I'm packing light - 12 kilos as of this morning. Nicky isn't.

Wetsuit Hospital

My wetsuit's gone to the Billabong Hospital this week. A bit of back story: One of the seams is beginning to split, which results in a bit of a cold spot through the stitching. I've been looking into ways of repairing it and one of my options was to get some neoprene and use the Black Witch glue (this is the best glue in the world by the way) I bought a while back. I went into one of the surf shops in Century City, happened to mention the suit was Billabong and they sent me straight to the Billabong shop saying that they should repair it for a small charge. So into the Billabong shop and the guys working there couldn't have been more helpful, telling me that Billabong suits have a lifetime warranty in the seams and that they could send it away to repair no problems. So there we are, the suit is in the shop so we just have to wait and see what the outcome's going to be. If as I'm hoping it's going to come back repaired we're looking at probably one of the greatest reasons to buy a big brand suit and particularly Billabong. Fingers crossed..

Waterfront

If you go down to the woods today

You'll probably struggle to spot Nicky, but she's there..

World Record breaking boat

Another interesting boat in the Waterfront at the moment is this amazing looking machine..





A bit of research and it turns out the be a world record breaker..

the boat is the Cable & Wireless Adventurer and it set the record for a circumnavigating the globe in 74 days, 20 hours, 58 minutes in 1998.

Here's some links for more information


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/125840.stm

http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/cable_and_wireless.htm

The Navy comes to town

Someone at the South African Navy parked 3 massive ships in the Waterfront this weekend.

We got the obligatory tour.

This one was built in Germany 4 years ago for god knows what cost to the South Africa Tax payer, but you can't go wrong with German engineering can you?





Here's some interesting facts..

1 - The mid range misiles on board cost 7 Million Rand a pop.
2 - The ship can go from full speed to stopped in about a ships length thanks to the amazing gas turbine engines.
3 - And some other secret things that we probably shouldn't know, so i can't say here. woooo..