Langebaan

So, my hire car arrived, its about the size of a matchbox, I could probably drive it with my elbows sticking out the windows on either side!! Haha, its a little Hyundai of some description. Mapless, I headed out of Cape Town and towards Langebaan, which is luckily very easy to find. The strong wind was blowing my little car all over the road like a feather in a hurricane!! But the scenery on the way was amazing, reminiscent of Western Australia with red-dirt-tracks at the side of the road here and there. I arrived at Cape Sports at Langebaan about 1.30pm and as I had expected it was too windy for a novice such as myself to kitesurf, so I hired a windsurf board and sail, and a wetsuit, for two hours. I didn't realise the tide was with the wind so I started out on kit that was far too small. Then I had a board with outboard straps, despite only being 95 litres (apologies to non windsurfers for the jargon). I had a reasonable sail, then came in to change the footstraps and when i went back out, finally with the kit how I wanted it, the wind had dropped and the tide increased, so I was barely planing and had to wobble back in downwind. Not the greatest sail ever, but the scenery was impressive and its always nice to experience a new location. I was happy. On the drive back I saw the aftermath of an horrific car crash, I'm sure a couple of people must have lost their lives. This served to reinforce my reasoning for making this trip, you never know when you're going to go!!
On arriving back in Cape Town I met Honray and his family in a great little Dutch restaurant on the waterfront called Den Anker. I had a fabulous tuna steak and some very tasty imported dutch beer. Then we went back to the flat and watched a bit of UEFA footy before going to bed, shattered!!!! Not sure what to do today, don't think theres a lot of wind so I'm considering climbing table mountain. But Honray has designs to climb 'lionshead', a smaller mountain next to the table, for sunrise thisevening. So I'm not sure. Its ever so nice having nothing to do but decide what to do. He he.