Fw: Sailing around the World ( presently in South Africa, )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Fri 12 Nov 2010 06:23
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From: ALady (S.Hyde)
To: A Lady
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 7:59 AM
Subject: Sailing around the World ( presently in South Africa,
) Tuesday 9th November
2010
S & A had a relaxing morning in Durban, but
again, we were advised " not to walk anywhere on our own "
We left the Hotel around midday and drove to the "
Gate Way " shopping mall, This place was huge, It seemed as
if it was the size of a city, and again the
selection of goods available and the prices were excellent.
Meanwhile, back on board, Terry and Collette got a
lift over to the Waterfront and had a long relaxing lunch there,
It was great to be here, even if the place is not
safe to walk around on your own.
Neil did his own thing with the young crowd ....
17.00hrs S & A left the " Gate Way "
Aileen having had the hair done , and set off on our journey back to Richards
Bay
up the " A 2 " motorway, this was a toll road, and
the tolls ranged from 1.5 euros to 2.9 euros.
We enjoyed our trip to Durban, where there were
lots of attractive colonial buildings mixed with some ugly modern high rise
blocks.
On our return , we found most boats had arrived and
like ourselves, all had experienced a tough crossing, even to the extent
that
" Eowyn " got knocked over completly and poor old "
Mike " was knocked unconsious for a while.
19.30hrs We all piled into the rent a car and drove
to " Jacks Corner " for dinner,
This restaurant was high up on the hill overlooking
the whole of Richards Bay, At night it was a
magnificant sight with all the lights of the city
glowing in the distance.
The weather was afull, lashing rain and a howling
gale, we were so lucky to be in out of all that stuff.
We were last to leave the restaurant, ( as usual )
and generally had a great night. Terry doing most of the
entertaining.
Ohhhh, I nearly forgot, as we were going ashore
from the boats, we had to cross from " A Lady" to Grand Filou and then to "
Wild Tigris "
and use their paserall ( Gang plank ) to get off.
It was all very tricky stuff and Collette missed her step as she was at the end
of the Gang plank
and fell on top of Skipper and we both landed on
the quay wall in all the bleedin rain and puddles of water,
Poor Cottleet gave herself an afull knock and hurt
her leg and hip.
Now we have two hippies on board the boat.
Skipper and Colette.
Thats all for today.
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
skipper )
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