Dec 9 - Drive to Outshorn and Wilderness.

Wednesday Maddie drove us to Outshorn to visit a friend of hers.
We "cured" my diarrhea by taking lots of pills they stop diarrhea. I probably won't shit for a week now.

I remember this road between Outshorn and George from back in my motorcycle tour days. The Outeniqua Pass road is one of the best motorcycling roads in the world. Long sweeping curves, little traffic, good look ahead, wide safety lane, and good tar. We used to send our clients up and down the pass twice. They loved that.

 We had a wonderful lunch at an old Ostrich house with Maddie's friend.

On the road back downhill to George we took some pictures.

 Me with George in the back ground.

 The Outeniqua Mountains, covered by clouds.

 Maddie and George.

A couple of shamelessly romantic selfie takers.

Maddie then drove us to Wilderness. It is a pure holiday town between George and Nysna. We needed to pee, so went into a large 5 star hotel. They were having a special on coffee and cake. R35. That is cheap. They had no lift (elevator) up to the restaurant. So we sat in the reception area and they sent a waiter.
I had a good chat with the waiter. After he left a very nice, chatty hotel manager sat down and we chatted lots. She just started the job and is a bit over whelmed by the responsibility. But I believe she will do that job very well.
She said the biggest problem was the local black staff. As an example she used the phone receptionist. That lady will answer the phone perfect, like 9 times out of ten, "Good morning, Protea Hotel Wilderness, my name is Sofi, How may I help you?"
Then she answers the next call with "hello". You can hear the people asking where is this, and almost plead to talk to someone else. The the next call is again answered perfect.
The manager says that training is futile because the receptionist already knows everything perfect.

We then drove to a whale lookout point. We asked a guy there if he had seen any whales. He said nothing today, but he saw some whales and dolphins yesterday. I think the locals are trained to say that. :-)

We took some pictures. I came SOOOO close to falling. I put crutches aside, and was waiting to take a picture with a para glider in the shot, and lost my balance and fell backwards. Thankfully I fell onto (almost into) a big concrete trash can.

The town of Wilderness. Note Para glider. This is from the whale watching point.

Again from Whale watching point. The Outeniqua Choo Tjoe steam train used to run from George to Nysna untill 2009.
:-(
Here it is in it's glory days.

 Tomorrow we go to the beaches :-)

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