Day 19 - Tsitsikamma National Park

We awoke after about 9.5 hours sleep to beautiful blue sky and not a cloud anywhere. I feel like a new woman!! We pottered down to the campsite where the others had been camping for breakfast at 8 and had French Toast and bacon - it’s amazing what these guys can do on a gas stove!

We headed back up to the cabin, got ourselves ready and headed off for our Waterfall trek and the “Otter Trail”. The terrain was tough let’s just say that, climbing over huge boulders, over rock faces and across rocks in the sea, at one point I very nearly ended up dangled head first over a cliff but luckily found my footing and held on for dear life! 1.5 hours later we made it to a beautiful clearing where a huge waterfall met with the Indian Ocean. The water fell about 100m cascading into a pool by our feet with the spray soaking us but it was such a beautiful sight. After many photos and just generally sitting and watching for a while we decided to brave it and head back the way we came. 

We arrived back at the cabin about an hour later and headed straight for the restaurant at the end of the campsite right at the end of the island. We had a lovely salad and a bottle of wine then continued on for another 45 minutes to 2 suspension bridges that ran over the water inlet into a gorge. It was very pretty and just nice to watch kayakers paddle their way into the gorge. 

We then slowly meandered back to the cabin, of course popping into the shop for more wine, fridge magnets and ice cream and spent the rest of the afternoon and most of the evening sat on the balcony, chatting, drinking wine and watching whales on the horizon slowly pass by. Utterly beautiful place and one of my favourites.