The west coast of South Africa stretches from Cape Town to Namibia.
We arrived in Lamberts Bay on July 31st, passing through the semi-desert of the Karoo.
The wind is cold, and being close to the sea, everything gets damp when it rains. The houses are not equipped for winter, but fortunately, there is almost always a fireplace. However, I freeze when I get into bed; I confess to having slept in a hoodie and sweatpants. Since it’s the low season, there’s no one around, and it’s wonderful! The beaches are deserted, vast, and fascinating, just like this entire country that is capturing my heart. The beauty I’ve seen here is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Here, people talk about elephants, crocodiles, and leopards the way we talk about foxes in Berlin. The animals here live freely, and you always have to be careful. It’s strange to hear my South African friends talk about seeing or hearing an elephant, seeing footprints on the beach, and trying to figure out what animal it could be. I jumped up and ran back to the house after hearing the sound of an animal in the bushes next to me that was not at all happy with my presence. From the footprints we photographed on the beach, we realized it could have been a small leopard (this happened on the East Coast at Cannon Rock). Here on the West Coast, the most common animals are birds of every species a European could imagine and even some they couldn’t! There are two species of flamingos, the larger ones and the smaller, pinker ones. The pink color comes from what they eat. We took a motorboat ride on the Berg River in Velddrif near Paternoster, where we are staying until August 5th, which is tomorrow, and then we head to Cape Town!
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