Our self
catering apartment was in a house hanging high on the cliff top overlooking the
lake, with the N2 and the sea behind us
The lake has a
small island and reminded Lynne so much of a favourite childhood book Swallows
and Amazons and others by Arthur Ransome, as it does resemble the Lake District
in England
A view at sunset down
the road at other properties and the far Outeniqua mountains
The bedroom
area, with a very comfortable bed, crackly percale linen and a good warm
duvet
It also has a
seating and a dining area with the wonderful view from the ‘picture’ window.
There was a small kitchen with a two burner stovelet, a bar fridge and a
microwave, and a small shower and loo. We were very comfortable for the 4
nights we were here, if a little cold. They did bring us a fire. There are
three other apartments with much more space and all have balconies
The view from
the house changes hourly as the light and clouds alter the affect. Wonderful to
paint
We saw so many
birds, drongos and shrikes came to our windowsill, we had swallows or swifts nesting
in the eaves above us and were enchanted when we saw at least 7 pairs of Knysna
loeries fly past below us in the forested areas. And Lynne had one incredibly
beautiful brief flash of kingfisher blue when we walked on one of the Parks
Boards boardwalks
Fiscal shrike. Also known as
a Butcher Bird, these birds eat anything and everything
A drongo
preening on the upstairs balcony railing
A walk on the
breathtakingly beautiful Wilderness beach. Temperature was about 9 degrees
Houses built
right on the edge of the dunes
Barefoot
beachcombers and sea mist
A young black
backed gull struts
The gathering
storm clouds were sensational
Golden sands
and glimmering water
The tiny white-fronted plovers kept us amused for ages
And the water
made beautiful reflections
They were
feeding on Plough Snails
and John
managed to get quite close
There are
round and oval pebbles which make lovely patterns in the sand
Lynne finds a
broken paper nautilus shell which had just washed up
Booty from our
beachcombing walks on Wilderness beach
Lots of jellyfish had washed up after the last storm, this man of war was being picked at by
the gulls
Plough Snails
make wonderful patterns as they skate across the sand
They find a
meal on a jellyfish
They look like
opals on the sand
A skein of
cormorants suddenly appears
A cloudscape
of note
How the light
changes on the lake
At sunset it
was mirror like
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor
& Bacchus 2014
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