It was a bit fresh this morning, I needed my jumper.

We had arranged for breakfast at 7.45. We met Areitha – Peter’s wife who cooked us a german sausage wrapped in bacon with eggs, this was after a bowl of rockmelon (spons spec) pomegranate seeds & grapes. Areitha was very friendly & liked to chat.

We left Chrissiesmeer & headed for Crystal Springs Mountain Lodge – near Pilgrim’s Rest. We stopped for provisions of bread & fruit in Lyndenberg -Mashishing, this is always interesting.no drama’s today with getting to our accommodation!

Hotter now – 30 deg

The GPS & Google maps disagreed on the route, we followed the GPS as it matched the written instructions we had… big mistake, we had road works & the biggest and most frequent pot holes ever seen on a tar road!

Just before arriving we saw our first real hint of wild life – monkeys on the side of the road…how exciting.

Checked into our rooms & had a bit of lunch out on the back deck which looks over a few gardens & 1 of the 5 pool areas, and gives us a slight view of the canyon below.

We had a thunder storm which only lasted for about 5 minutes, we then walked around to the main area where a few more of the facilities are located, checked out the pools etc before having a few games of table tennis in the games room- David was the winner.

We found more animals, Vervet Monkeys, & watched them play for a while

We had a fantastic sunset – the colours are very vivid.

Dinners was included in our package, so no cooking for me tonight!