Saturday 15th December

Most of the day has been spent travelling. We said a fond farewell to Knysna at 9.15 this morning and began our trek along the remainder of the beautiful Garden Route. Having passed by Wilderness and George and seen the considerable flood damage along the coatline caused by recent bad weather we spent two hours in the seaside resort of Mossel Bay, where m,ost of the team had another meal opnly about 3 hours after breakfast!!!! JGB and resident Consultant Mr Jacob went in search of some sunblock for Simon MacLeod while APM and JKL did the rounds of the craft shops. We then spent half an hour at the headland where JGB, Mr Jacob and most of the party climbed up the cliffs to the light house, JKL prefering his suduko and APM his talking novel! The view was superb. After another "pit stop" at which the boys refuelled themselves once again we arrived at the beautiful Houw Hoek Inn at 4.45. The boys immediately started on the rounds of the activities with Anand Patel looiking very elegant on the Trampoline whilst Jack Lewis and Simon Macleod began the Bancroft's open championship on the crazy golf course!! Unfortunately after a long sunny drive the moment we arrived it clouded over which has rather taken the edge off the beauty of the spot and the forecast for tomorrow is that it will be windy and possibly a bit wet. Plans for a beach trip to Hermanus may have to change.

Unfortunately the only internet access is in the manager's office so any plans for photos on this site will have to go on hold as the speed of the internet is desperately slow. I also apologise to our correspondent who has requested a posting of the scorebook! Life is, I'm afraid, too short for that luxury!!!!!!!