Drive to Mossel Bay

Tuesday, Oct 19  South Africa

Again, such a beautiful sunny day with temps perfect!  I truly feel so blessed to have the opportunity to travel as a couple as we are doing.  So nice to just open the doors to the deck in our bedroom, lay in bed, feel the breeze, listen to the waves, and sip on hot tea.  We always look forward to each day and head out for more adventure.

I think this was the only 10 seconds that wasn't a hat day!

We're driving along the main highway headed back to Mossel Bay to go out on a boat and do a Great White Shark Feeding.  As we're driving along and in the middle of the center median you can see guys working.  They were trimming the bushes with Nippers!!!... I mean the kind of nippers that I would cut one branch with... again amazing the amount of manual labor.

After leaving Plettenberg Bay area where the National Park was and seeing how lush the foliage was, it was not the same in Mossel Bay area... they are in severe drought and maybe 2 hours away.

One section of the highway they had two flagmen directing everyone into one lane with a speed limit of 35mph... we proceeded along for FOUR MILES, and saw no workers, no construction, in-fact the road looked perfect!  The only thing you could see were the cones for the single lane!  Are you kidding me -- 35mph in one lane for FOUR miles for nothing!

Another thing that is done -- guys/gals stand in the parking lot and offer to watch your car for you while you shop or are away from your car, and of course, they want a tip.  In the Crossings Shopping Center in Nelspruit is where we first saw them.  There were lots of them,  one every few parking spaces, each waving their arms trying to get you to park in their area, it's crazy.

 I know we had a pic of the guy with the whisk broom at the turnpike gate, well, we also saw a guy sweeping the city streets with a shop broom, hey, he had the new and updated equipment.

Notice only one guy is working... everyone else is standing watching!
Poor Guy

Interesting, when Dennis got directions as we were heading somewhere, the guy kept mentioning to turn at the robot and then go to next robot... we call them traffic lights!

We were headed to the Post Office to get a Fishing License
and walked by this little girl... she was so precious!