GR day 2

Woke up to missing the bag with all my biltong bought at Kruger. While I was able to sample every kind, I'm still devastated at having misplaced it. For the record, impala was my favorite. So while it is a nuisance for spotting more exotic animals, impala is quite delicious as a cured meat.

This is how our Nissan rental (the one we picked up at Port Elizabeth airport) was secured overnight at Knysna Inn:

A powered gate in the back. 

 

We went down to the waterfront area of Knysa to get breakfast. 

At Cafe Throbb,

I had a nice smoothie:

And a chicken liver dish called bunny chow. On the whole, it was a delicious meal and reminded me of the places nearing SF on the bike tour. 

We drove through a few more scenes on the Garden Route before realizing in Mossel Bay that Gabe had left his day pack at the cafe. He and I drove back to pick it up while Matt checked out Mossel Bay more. I snapped a couple random pics on the way:

We got lunch at a place connected to the local branch of the posh Protea Hotel, with this legend of the old Post Office Tree:

My traditional fish and chips were disappointing. 

We headed back down the Garden Route. 

A gas station attendant noticed our left rear tire was deflating. He put in some air, but I verified it was dropping several psi at the next stop an hour later. Our spare is all good, but it's an annoyance. 

We arrived late to Jack's, a very out of the way but beautiful place on an essentially lost coast area. The pictures will be better when I take them in the morning. Betty's Bay is a quiet town on the Atlantic side. A cool survey/planning map of the area hangs at Jack's:

My dinner was a Xhosan dish: mqsho, where q is a click sound. 

It was good. But the highlight were the mini samosa appetizers, where the chef'd swapped egg roll skins in for better frying. Inspired. 

Tomorrow, we take on looking for penguins and poking around Betty's Bay before heading up to Stellenbosch for winery stuff.