Family fun

Yesterday my aunt and uncle, Nikki and Charles, and cousins, came and visited. They have been on holiday in South Africa for a few weeks and are spending the last week in the Cape Town area (they head back home on Wednesday).

Yesterday was a lovely day. Beaming sun, no clouds, very warm. We started up the barbeque when they came and we had pleeenty of food, and were stuffed at the end. We actually had burgers that didn't shrivel up like Tesco ones do, which was a pleasure.

In the afternoon, we headed off to the sand dunes nearby. This is an amazing place - a large area of sand in a valley between two hills/mountains. It is like a small desert, and looks down one side (South) towards Hout Bay town and the bay, and the other (North-West) to the Atlantic from a height.

The best part of the sand dunes is running around bare foot and being careless. We took our most energetic dog, Turbo, with us, and he joined in on the fun. Soon, Tim (cousin) and I were scouting out verges to launch ourselves off - there's no pain involved in jumping off 10-feet-plus drops. Where we first came on to the dunes, there were a few medium-sized drops, but then as we worked our way towards the top of the dunes, there were larger and higher ones to attempt to jump from.

Tim found one with bushes at the top to give an extra challenge of jumping higher and further. Eventually everyone started jumping, and we got some amazing photos mid-air (and tumbling in the sand on landing). I'm hoping Heikki will put up some of his photos so I can add them in here. Here are some photos...

When we got back to the cars, we had to de-sand. It had got everywhere. I had huge amounts, literally handfuls, of sand in my short pockets. Tim and the others had to endure a long car ride back to where they are staying in Somerset West before they could change out of their sand-filled clothes.

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Dan | 09:39
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