{"id":7714,"date":"2014-09-04T21:37:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T04:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=7714"},"modified":"2015-09-29T22:38:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:38:40","slug":"the-overberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2014\/09\/04\/the-overberg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Overberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was obviously not going to improve upon yesterday’s airborne sharks<\/a>, so I told Audrey to sleep in while I did a quick walk along the coast searching for whales. Breakfast at our B&B provided a reminder that no matter how similar a foreign country seems to home, there are tiny differences – our pancakes were served topped with apple (not particularly unusual) and sour cream (yowza). After checking out of the sour creamery we did a loop through town looking for whales, encountering the Hermanus “whale crier” who stood on a point with a vuvuzela that he blew whenever he sighted a whale – even with the vuvuzela, his was a job that I coveted.<\/p>\n

Our drive to Swellendam was through very pretty farmland and included flocks of huge blue cranes, and the town of Swellendam turned out to have a tremendously nice place for us to stay at Gaikou Lodge<\/a>, and incredible food hosted by a very pleasant Scottish man at the Powell House<\/a>. The afternoon activity was a visit to Bontebok National Park, a place we targeted mostly because we noticed that it was along our route, but that provided more than enough animals to keep us entertained for several hours.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we’re heading in the direction of the town of Oudtshoorn, aka “the ostrich capital of the world”. This portion of the trip continues to be unplanned, with a nightly perusal of the map giving us a general idea for where we go the next day, subject to detours for any interesting distraction we might discover en route.<\/p>\n

\"Cape<\/p>\n

Cape weaver, with weaving material in-beak, in Bontebok National Park.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was obviously not going to improve upon yesterday’s airborne sharks, so I told Audrey to sleep in while I did a quick walk along the coast searching for whales. Breakfast at our B&B provided a reminder that no matter how similar a foreign country seems to home, there are tiny differences – our pancakes … Continue reading “The Overberg”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,30,21],"class_list":["post-7714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2014-world-tour","tag-photography","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7714"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8155,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions\/8155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}