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Richards
Bay - South Africa
The
modern marina we are now tied up in, and the airconditioned shopping malls we go
shopping in, are so far away from the experience of our last months cruising
Africa that it almost feels like we have arrived on another planet. Culture
shock aside, it is nice to have made it this far, and we have a busy social
life, catching up with friends sailing
in from far and wide. We are especially happy to be reunited with our friends on
Windora, the New Zealand yacht that rode out the storm with us on Raoul Island,
some years earlier. Another friend, Guenter from the Nova, who has arrived a
season earlier and whose yacht is now in Cape Town, drives clear across the
country to welcome us, and show us some of South Africa's vast interior. After
attending to some maintenance, Fallado is herself ready to continue around to
Cape Town. It's not any easy ride, as the treacherous Agulha's current must be
negotiated, but there are several harbours that are useful bolt holes to wait
for suitable conditions. We make stops in Durban, East London and Mossel Bay,
before finally rounding the Cape of Good Hope and tying up in the shadow of Cape
Town's Table Mountain.
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