We picked up a hire car in Port Elizabeth to drive The Garden Route to Cape Town. Our first stop was a tree top lodge between Plettenberg and Knysna, two of the most popular tourist resorts in the Cape. We arrived in the rain which persisted for our first day but then the sun shone and we visited quieter parts of each town at Keurboomstrand and Thesen Island. The latter was founded in 1870 by a family from Stavanger in Norway who had intended to emigrate to New Zealand, but fell in love with South Africa en route, setting up a transport, logging and oyster business.
Our lodge had troops of baboons and monkeys. The monkeys were very cheeky and succeeded in swiping the dried mango from Tim’s breakfast bowl !
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