Mel and Neal Volunteer in South Africa: Last week in programme

I made it back from Cape Town no problem. In fact, when I arrived into Muizies (local name for Muizenberg) I
arrived to a beautiful blue sky, playful seas and hoards of people. Being a Sunday, and a nice one at that
especially without much wind everyone and their braii make it down to the beach. I avoided the beach for the day, and hung around Muzies drinkin' coffee and eating ice cream.
For my last week of the programme I decided to change to the surf programme for the last three days. I'm happy I did that because I got to see how the surf lessons were run. Plus I really enjoyed being out in the water with the kids. I was bobbing up and down in the waves, pushing and encouraging the kids onto waves. I even got a few good shots of the kids in the water with my camera. They loved seeing themselves in the photos in the water.

These are two of the suits donated by Xcel. Cheers Xcel, great fit!

Warm up

Paddle practice

Carve practice

Posing practice

up...

...and away

Toes in the sky

Future shred-heads

Other warm-ups

Surf instructor Widi warming up

After finishing up the programme with the kids, I started to concentrate on Mel's arrival and what we were going to do for the week that we were going to be together in SA.
Before Mel's arrival on Sunday night I picked up our rental car and headed out for a test drive with a few of my roomies. We drove along the coast, and stopped off at a winery before dropping them back off in Muzies and saying our goodbyes. Unfortunately, I don't have much photo documentation of that trip because my camera started to act up. What I can say is that the coast along the cape's atlantic side is the most beautiful coast I have ever driven along. There is a pass called the Chapmen's Peak that is absolutely stunning with mountains that join the sky to the sea. More on this later when I get the pix from the tour Mel and I did on this same route.