Less words, more photos.

Since there are many photos on this post, I feel a little bit less obliged to write something lengthy. Especially since my last post was so wordy. Personally, I am a visual learner, so when I can see something I internalize it much more than if I read about it. So, guided by captions, I will let the pictures tell the stories this time.

READING CAMP
(for description, see last post)

All of the kids with some of the volunteers

Holding "Flat Tire" with the owner in the background. He collects reptiles, and showed the kids a few of them including a python. Named "Monty" :

Monty was molting. Check out the kids' faces in this photo! :)


Potjie
(Pronounced "poy-kee," this is an Afrikaans celebratory food tradition when they cook yummy stew in a massive pot over a fire. This potjie was with the mountain club.)

This potjie was accompanied by "poi" which is when someone has this chain with two lanterns/torches on the end and swings them around. Mesmerizing.

Alexandria
One of the craziest hikes I have ever done. I went with the mountain club (I still really think BC needs one of these), and it was a group of 10 of us. 7 of us were international students, from London, the Netherlands, Canada, and the US!

First we hiked through the forest. I often found myself hiking in the front, dealing with gazillions of spider webs. Like this one. That spider's body (not including legs) is about the size of a quarter. Slightly intimidating!!

Then, after crossing a beautiful field and walking down the road, we hiked along the beach for MILES. It was the most untouched beach I have ever seen. If you look in this picture, we hiked all the way to (and beyond) the cliff at what looks like the end of this beach.

Me and Merran. She is an exchange student from Canada!
Then we hiked up the side of the cliff in a sandy part, using a rope to pull ourselves up. If you look closely in the photo above, you can see the people ahead of us walking up the side of the cliff.

Then we were in the dunes.

We were hiking next to the cliff like this for a while. Then we got to the hut, which was in a wooded part of the dunes and overlooked the ocean.
Waking up to another beautiful day! On the deck of the hut, overlooking the Indian Ocean.

After hiking through the woods, then using another rope to get up a massive sand dune, we reached the most beautiful landscape of dunes I have ever seen.
I felt like I was in the Sahara desert...
...but the ocean was right there.
Then we went back into the forest and climbed over a few hills to get back to our minibus.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

As I said last time, I am looking forward to our big 2-week vacation starting this coming Saturday! I can't WAIT. My next post will probably be all about April vac :)

Much love,
Lindapants