An integral part of this journey was always going to be getting involved in volunteering project work, preferably with animals, and even before leaving Cape Town, we had earmarked a turtle conservatio...Read More
After the fiasco of finding a bed for the night, an apartment had to be found for the proceeding 6 days. Thankfully the internet connection was closer to first world than in the Philippines, so we w...Read More
It was just the four of us again (plus the infinite amount of mosquitos) and the rain: buckets of it; so we were penned in and alternated between the bedroom, veranda and the communal dinning room. Th...Read More
Laura and Mark’s fear was that the wound could be infected due to the primitive conditions at the small clinic at Buena Vista, and unfortunately they were proved correct. Zack’s stitches had to be...Read More
The weather turned in our favour and the kids had great fun, swimming in the sea and building houses for the tiny crabs at the waters edge. Mark went for a long swim and I was quite far out in the w...Read More
Our two families worked together well, and all of our travel plans had been executed with minimum upheaval. The kids even squabbled sporadically like siblings would! It was decided to continue our...Read More