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Well the best laid plans and all that. Beach day - not so much.  Had a wonderful breakfast with Winston and Marlina and made it out of the house by around 10:30 or so.  All set and packed for a day at the beach.  The minute we opened the door, the wind almost knocked us down!  Being the brave souls that we are and very determined, we set our course for Bikini Beach in the hopes that the wind would be blocked. HAH!

Took in the views and decided to just walk around the little village.  The beach path was wonderful - fully equipped with workout stations.  A few shops across from the beach. Bikini Beach Books is a pretty famous and popular hangout.  Lots of books in all languages piled high.  We really did not know what to do next.  Brought up the GPS and programmed a ride around Betty's Bay.  There is another African Penguin colony there.  However, Winston said what we saw up in Simon's Town was better - don't bother - so we didn't.  I found a restaurant, On the Edge, at the water's edge down at the bottom of the bay.  Thinking this would be a good lunch destination, we set our course.

The ride down to the bay was exquisite - lots of photo ops.  We even saw a film crew.  This is the second one we have seen since we have been in this country.  It seems everywhere we go, they are making movies.  Mark Wahlberg was making a movie in Bogota when we were there last year.  I could not find out what they are filming here. I did hear that Ridley Scott is filming a new sci-fi TV series here, called Raised by Wolves.  Maybe that's what it might be.

Finally weaved our way up and down to the sea and wouldn't you know, the restaurant was closed!  Found a small lunch spot on the way out of town for a couple of veggie burgers.  We had hoped to take a less traveled road back but it turned out to be a dirt road.  A little too less traveled for our tastes.  So we opted to take the highway up and down another set of mountains to complete our route around this small peninsula. We ended up at Mary Ann's Natural Way, a vegan restaurant that sells all sorts of natural products as well.  We were hoping to check it out for dinner but no luck.  They were just closing the lunch buffet - they do not serve dinner.  So we enjoyed a lovely cappuccino and a piece of vegan blueberry cheesecake sitting high a top a tall hill overlooking the bay.  By the way, the blueberries were the size of huge grapes!

Passing Vineyard

We were back at the house before our hosts left for the evening.  Marlina very kindly did our washing.  That is a tremendous help to us.  They won't be home till after 10pm so we have the place to ourselves.  We may order in or go back to the Ocean Basket - not sure.

Tomorrow we have a very long drive to our new hosts at Groot Brak.  Plan on getting an early start.

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Next time.... Groot Brak