Epic Adventure Part I: Stroll To The Hole

Easter weekend: four days of fun for Sam and I who had planned a bit of a hike to Coffee Bay and some chilling out at the various backpackers along the way.
We set off from Zithulele just after lunch on Good Friday, expecting a difficult 2-3hour hike along the coast to Hole in the Wall. It was a boiling hot day with very little wind so we thought it would be very tough going, but set off in high spirits on our first adventure as just the two of us. It turned out to be a pretty easy walk through the surrounding villages and even though we just meandered along at a snail's pace we arrived at the hole in under an hour and a half!

Setting off from our rondavel

The Hole was stunning as usual, packed with tourists for the Easter weekend and after a little rest by the river after such a long trek [ha] we continued on to the Hole in the Wall hotel. Fortune was again on our side as we had the dorm to ourselves which meant we would have a peaceful night, good times. Things were all lining up for us, just like that scene in Meet the Fockers where they leave for the airport, all the traffic lights turn green, get upgraded to first class etc etc etc. [See part II for our version of the rest of that movie where it turns disastrous...]



We had dinner at the Hotel then played a bit of pool before calling it a night and heading towards the dorm. Unfortunately for us, two lonely men in the bar had spotted that there were other people still awake at this late hour (it was almost 9pm, shock horror!) and asked if we wanted to have a drink with them in the bar. Being far too polite/poor to turn down free drinks, we returned to the bar and sat and chatted to them for a bit. Sadly, in the light of the bar it became clear that it probably wouldn't be worth the price of a drink to endure the conversation as we were in the company of a massive bald man who looked like a shark and his tiny Indian friend with long greasy hair who were on a fishing trip together...great times. True to his shark-like features, the bald one proceeded to tell us all about the horrible shark attacks that have ever happened in the history of the world and put us off swimming in the sea for life. Sam and I drank our Savannahs as fast as possible in order to escape the scintillating conversation that was threatening to continue into the wee small hours, but only succeeded in being bought another one. Considerably more tipsy, eventually we got out of there, scarpered off to the dorm ASAP and locked the door...

At Hole in the Wall