Sailing from Knysna Bay

Wednesday, Oct 20  South Africa

Knysna Bay

After a leisure day in the Knysna Bay area we set out for a beautiful late afternoon Sailing with one other couple, along with our captain and two crew members.  We enjoyed drinks, dinner and a lovely sunset.

Sails begin to go up...

Springtide Sailing Charters

This pic from their web site, so you can see whole sailing yacht.

We set out from the bay area and went out past the Knysna Heads into the Indian Ocean seeing incredible rock bluffs, caves, birds, and some elaborate homes overlooking the waters.   We saw one whale, but not close enough for a pic.

Knysna Heads

Caves

Beautiful home overlooking the Bay

These rocks were awesome

We didn't have much wind, so we motored out into the ocean and then the wind almost completely died.  We did spend some time actually sailing, and as we were heading back in for dinner and sunset, the wind began to be almost gale forced winds... crazy!!

Here's close up of the rocks... note all the nests and birds roosting

Life is good on a sailboat!

Not our prettiest sunset, but still lovely!

Dennis caught me with my hands full... probably my camera!

Headed in and Dennis is helping put the last sail in it's holder/bag

Our captain on his cell requesting the bridge be raised so we could get back to dock.
But, that was only after his cell phone died,
 so he had to put his sim card in a crew member's phone
 because his sim had the phone number to call.

Was a great day in Knysna!