Rotary GSE to South Africa 2009

 

I'm writing from the Johannesburg airport---the wifi isn't free, but at least it's not terribly expensive. We still won't be home for another 30 hours or so, so  I'm having a cappuccino in hopes that there will be some good movies on the plane. Last night we spent back in Cape Town, but before that we were a few days in Oudtshoorn for the Rotary District Conference. It was nice to see a lot of the people that we had met along the way.

We went to the Kango Wildlife Park in Oudtshoorn and saw lots of animals, including this pygmy hippo. He wasn't very interested in us.

We had to give a presentation at the conference, and we wanted it to reflect our experiences over the past month. So we all got out our laptops and selected our top photos to put into our slide show.

Here's Jenny eating a "4 x 4," which was an enormous kebab with springbok, kudu, ostrich, and crocodile.

Here's some of the lovely scenery we saw on the drive from Oudtshoorn back to Cape Town.

I'll see you back in Tucson!

 
Beaufort West 05/08/2009
 

We arrived in Beaufort West on May 5, and so at the Rotary Club presentation that night we subjected the Rotarians to a little Cinco de Mayo festivity. Here's BJ pouring the tequila, of which everyone was more than happy to partake.

We spent a very cold morning at the Karoo National Park on a game drive. This is a kudu, one of the many animals we saw that morning. We've also tried kudu steak, which is not bad.