Garden Route day four

Day four

Thursday the 16^th of February. This was the second last day of our trip. We woke up and had scrambled eggs with bacon and toast for breakfast. We left at about half past 8. Today we would be doing the Canopy gliding tour at Stormriver. We arrived and got instructions on about the tour. They gave us the gear and a helmet for safety. We also got a bottle of water which was quite nice seeing that I didn’t bring my own. On the wall in the room where we got our gear, there was a map of the world and pins. People who had done this tour have all put a pin on the place they came from. Europe was completely covered with pins and so was Hong Kong and Argentina. There were almost now pins in Africa and only some in Australia. We went on a small open van which drove us to where the tour would start. We climbed up the stairs and stood on a platform where the first person got attached to the line and abseiled down to the next tree. We went from tree to tree like this, every time attaching to the abseiling line and then again on another safety cord. Sometimes the man on the platform on the next tree would wave at you and then you had to break by pulling the line down with your right hand if you were right handed and with your left hand if you were left handed. The tour was nice but not as exciting as the bungee jumping. It would have been better if we did the bungee jump first. After the tour, we had lunch and received our certificate. We went straight to the Buffeljagtsdam where we would spend the night and have dinner. When we arrived, it was still light but the sun was about to set. We were told that the night sky would be littered with stars but unfortunately it was cloudy so no stars for us. Dinner was really nice, we had chicken with salad and rice. After dinner we sat outside a bit and some of use watched a part of the soccer match between Ajax and Manchester. We slept in two separate lodges, one for the boys and one for the girls. While we were sitting in the girl’s lodge, we heard Pipa screaming. We ran to her to see what she was screaming about and then we saw it, this huge spider on the wall. Miss Stephens came in the room with a bucket and a ladle to get it out. At first it didn’t work so I asked her if I could do it because she is not that tall and she could hardly reach it. So I tried but then she got mad at me because she said I might hurt it. Then Lotte came in screaming that she wanted to kill it and then Miss Stephens took over again to make sure the SPIDER was okay. She told Lotte she couldn’t kill it seeing that it had as much right to live as Lotte did. After what felt like ages, Miss Stephens succeeded in chasing it out of the lodge. We chatted a little longer with the group and at half past 11 Miss Stephens told us to go to bed. The girls went to their rooms and the boys went back to their own lodge. Half an hour later Lotte and I got really thirsty and because we couldn’t drink the water from the tap seeing that it was brown, we decided to go to the kitchen to get some water. When we walked out the door, Miss Stephens came to check on us that we wouldn’t sneak out and she checked all the doors to see if they were still closed and no boys at tried to pay us a nightly visit. We went to our rooms again, giggling about her paranoia and fell asleep soon afterwards.