Les & Sharon's travels: Exciting First Week

What an eventful but enjoyable first week here in paradise –oops, I mean Glen Stewart..

The rented house in now fully sorted inside, no longer tripping over cardboard boxes and wondering “where did we put that?” or “Sharon, where do you think the xxxxx is?” We even have the satellite TV working – so haven’t missed the soccer, although we watched most games with friends or at the church on projector.

Sharon inside - with kitchen in background

Have had meaningful times with the church at various meetings – feel fully integrated into the daily life of the body. Also, met so many nice folks in the complex here – no reason to ever feel isolated. Even fishing or surfing, everyone introduces themselves and chats – people have time for each other - I suppose it’s not possible to be more like that in crowded cities.

One evening in the week I fished with our Dominee (Graham) - caught nada, but lots of bites, early the next morning I caught 3 shad ( and a strepie which I used for bait) – of which 1 was fried brunch, and we smoked the other two – yummy!! I even cleaned them myself - no fishwife required.

As promised in last posting - Breakfast from 'On the rocks'

On Thursday morning – Trevor & Gerald Richter, our builders, arrived – and we spent the morning measuring and locating plot pegs.

Photo of Q-Bay point, with some distracting building activity in foreground

Eventually found the one important one – and by ‘tjila’ on Friday - yesterday, the foundation trenches were dug!

Cold front being sent up from you guys in CT tomorrow, but yesterday & today - warm berg winds, which made Queensberry Bay’s point go off – so after the workmen left at 3pm yesterday, I was in the surf, with my own professional photographer (and shark-spotter) Sharon, on the rocks. .

In the water also were local mates, including Brewer, another builder who lives here, who had also quoted for us. Somewhat different to Cape Town, company is always welcomed in the waves – I think maybe ‘cos it reduces the ‘being nibbled at’ probability ratio. Usually the problem is finding someone else to surf with.

Rugged coastline, looking NE from Q-Bay point.

On walking back home, we saw a local couple, Kobus and Joy, catch a nice sized ‘Silver’ - white musselcracker.

Kobus' 'silver'

Our pastor Graham was on the rocks with them and helped him land it. Graham’s comment afterwards “ Hey, did you see - I just pulled a fish out of the ocean with my bare hands !! - So much excitement I’ll have to change my pacemaker’s battery!”