Durban memories

On Sunday we went to visit the Ushaka Marine world. It is an aquarium by another name, however well worth visiting. I really tried hard to take photos inside the aquarium of swimming fish, but no way. Not even a chance of getting anything in focus. The whole aquarium is built as if it is a shipwreck. Very cleverly done.

Stone fish. Not swimming!!

A Spotted Eagle Ray

A wake up call

After this touristy bit we were off to visit some old friends of Dick who live on the Bluff. What a lovely time we had. It just confirmed the old saying again: “Make new friends but keep the old, as the new ones are silver, but the old ones are gold”. True friends are a rare commodity indeed, so we felt blessed on Sunday to be able to share time and a meal with them.

We spent our last night in the lovely home in Kloof, with the absent landlord, but well looked after by George, the housekeeper and was off early on Monday morning and back to the Hyandai dealer where we had spent a large part of Saturday morning. Like so many time after you have been to a garage, there was a new problem as a result of the fixing of the previous one. Anyway this was sorted out and by 11.30 we were off to do a bit of shopping and for Dick to go and visit the Thompson Travel ladies and by 1 we were on the road and off to Tugela mouth.

So Durban to me was about meeting and spending time with lovely people, both on Saturday and Sunday, experiencing the hospitality of more people, getting to know the Hyundai dealership in Springfield and at last finding good wine at a good price at Makro. We did some “test buying” on Saturday and then I went back on Monday to get a case of the “specially bottled for Makro” wine called escape at R20 per bottle, so it is GOOD BYE to PnP box wine for now!!!!