What a wonderful night at Forever Resorts. We both wished we could stay a bit longer as this place really had an amazing atmosphere. While we were eating breakfast there was a Tour Boat traveling up the river telling people about what was visible. I was thinking they could have said “And on the left side of the river you can see an establishment of mobile and tented homes. This is a space where these species travel with their dwelling vehicles. If you look carefully you can see some of them eating the daily food.” This is rather warped but it was fun thinking about the commentary.
We headed out to Cape St Francis for the next light house. Stunning weather.
Our accommodation for St Francis has not yet been finalised but we will work on that while we were driving.
Driving we came across a farm that grew Wind Turbines. The farm was called Kouga Wind Turbine farm. These types of animals we have never seen before, but they are really increasing in number throughout the Eastern Cape. Who knows where they will grow to.
We turned onto a dirt road because we knew of a caravan park down this road. We had looked at our caravan book, and the phone numbers published were no-longer working. We felt that there should be a number on their sign.
First Caravan Park said sorry, they have taken the weekend off and there was no camping allowed this weekend.
Not a problem we will head to the next one. Second Caravan Park said that they had no interest for this weekend, so he gave his staff off for the weekend and no camping allowed.
Stress starting to creep in, third site said they charge over R500 for one night. We said out of our budget but can they give us pensioner rates of around R200. He said at that rate he cant be bothered to have any one.
Drove into St Francis and saw a back packers. Both mom and I were very unsettled about this place and we passed on by.
Now we are getting worried. We head down to the light house in hope of finding something closer there. At this point heavy mist and fog has set in and there was no other available accommodation. We found a Back packers lodge sign on a pole with a phone number. We called and we got accommodation for the night. Double story house, ex SA Navy man … how bad can this be. Well we arrived.
Too very short words … Oh dear … !!!.
We believed that we had been led there and we walked in. Interesting !!!
Dirty clothes lying everywhere, 3 couched hiding under stuff. Smell well…. Dirty, unclean, damp. What are we in for? !!
Kitchen highly questionable. The guys rushed into the kitchen to clean so we could make some coffee and cook some dinner, mom cooked some pasta for us for dinner and we scuttled up to our room, where we stayed the rest of the night.
We prayed for protection for the night and we crashed. Strangely enough we felt very safe and the guys were really sweet.
Sleep well and trust we are going to be okay.
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