A chance to chill out! Today is the first rest day of the tour. We are staying at the Pezula Resort Hotel just outside Knysna. It is a very well designed development of low rise apartment units carefully concealed in the rolling hills. The resort was opened earlier this year.
View of Kynsna Lagoon from Pezula Resort Hotel
The day has given some a chance to play golf, others to whale watch and us just to walk towards the ocean a mile away. Is it the Indian now, or is it still the Atlantic?
We took a short drive into Knysna and had a marvelous meal at South 34 (named after the latitude) on the waterfront. Knysna is on the edge of a beautiful lagoon and in the evening a trip had been organised on the paddle steamer that cruises the lagoon.
Protea bush in flower
We ended the day, as usual, drinking in the bar with the many new friends we have made. Tomorrow there are two alternative routes. One takes the mountain road into the wild country away from the coats and over 250 kms of gravel with some very rough sections. The other goes along the main road to Port Elizabeth, about 400 kms from here. We have decided to take the easy route to get there quickly and then have my tyres checked and tubes removed from the three remaining wheels. I don't want any more punctures because tubes are failing.
