Friends 2

Here we have the second installment of friends, again in semi-reverse alphabetical order. If there are any missing, Sorry, but I guess I don't have any photos of you!

Myburgh breaks down in tears after Mike Lundy gets us lost at Myburgh's Waterfall Ravine.

Yum, dinner time for Graeme!

Lisa admires the view at Bacco's Lookout, Hout Bay. Nice shades, Lisa!

Me, Carmen and Lisa soak up some sun.

Me, Boet and Mom, with chatterbox Byron

Lucy at farewell party

Kobus and Noor ignore the photographer!

Me and Julia

Greg, the proud father of previously mentioned Alex.

Ex-housemate, Jikke, now living back in Holland, I think.

Errrrrrrrrr, Mike and Elly at Frensham Pond. They are now engaged! CONGRATS!

Mom and Sally in Tietiesbaai

Charline goes sailing

On the orange River with Ruark, and the fiesty girls who composed the great song, Russell, the Love Muscle.

Ex-girl of my dreams, Shaka - thumb wrestling queen, poet and capoeirista extrodinairre.

Shane, the proud mother of previously mentioned baby, Kayleigh. CONGRATS!

Nic and Steve with their friend the Springbok.

Quiz masters par excellance, Warren and Jo

Mr Warren does his best impression of Prince Harry!

The other Mr Warren, now an official geocacher!

Chicken and me

Wayne, Helen and young Matthew - what a fun little guy!

Friends

Here we have a bunch of my friends in vaguely semi-reverse alphabetical order. More friends to follow tomorrow.

Dave and Mary go for matching colours at the Radisson. Wake up there, dave!

Dave and Mary at home in London

Corrine, as seen in "Hikes with Corrine". Corrine has just got married! CONGRATS!

Colleen and Steve get married. For those who don't know, Colleen is now pregnant! CONGRATS!

Me, Colleen and The Hoffa in the Cederberg. All 3 of us took this photo at the same time with 3 cameras. What skill!

Colleen and Steve enjoy a pleasant stroll on a typical England sunny spring day. Sorry for the blurry pic - my hand must have been shaking because of the cold.

Colleen in the Cederberg

Claudia seems to have Barry in his place!

Claudia

Ahoy! Tony Chicken enjoys the view in Lesotho.

Carmen in De Kelders

Robocop, err, I mean Brent, enjoys a night out at a deserted warehouse?

Brandon the Chaffeur (sorry dad, no idea how to spell that!).

Brandon is now the proud father of young Kayleigh, named after his favourite song by Marillion. CONGRATS!

Dad and Boet try their hand at geocaching up the West Coast.

Boet tries his hand rather unsuccessfully at coping with a tricky water shot!

Boet and Steve looked releived that after 30 minutes trying, Boet has finally got the ball out of the water!

Barry

Barry, Jana and Claudia on Jana's 3rd birthday. CONGRATS!

Angela, who is currently living it up in Tanzania, after working for 3 months in Kenya.

Ally (Nathalie) Speed, who is back to work after having a baby, young Alex. CONGRATS!

Ally (the other one) tests her Hidden Dragon style against my Crouching Tiger style. Wa-kaaaahh!!!!

Ally (also know as Dark Helmet) gets dirty plummeting down the worlds most dangerous road in Bolivia

Ally and Graeme on Copacabana Beach, Rio. In the background we see the typical gorgeous Brazilian Beach Babe. No wander I felt let down!

Welsh Adventure

I went down to Cardiff to visit Charline for the weekend, and within 3 minutes of arriving was being whisked off to go sailing!

Our boat, The Amber, piloted by Captain Chaos!

Charline

Me doing some driving while Captain Chaos takes a breather to snuggle up next to confirmed Doctor Who fan, Jane.

As mentioned previously, Cardiff has the second highest tidal fluctuations in the world, so you have to go through the barrage to get out to sea. Going out was fine, but getting back was embarrassing. The barrage was full of boats, and we had untied the rope from the front morring, but Chaos couldn't get the back one out, and the front of the boat swung out and smashed into the opposite wall, almost taking out a smaller boat behind, and needing the other sailors to jump out and pull our boat straight. And to top it all, as the barrage is a great tourist attraction, the walls up above were lined with interested tourists to laugh at our predicament! Cringe!!

Leaving the barrage

Penarth cliffs in the background

The tide was really low in the channel out to sea, and we were in danger of getting stuck high and dry, like this bouy.

Heading out to sea

Errrr, I think we are being followed

In the harbour, we spotted this wounded looking fox, lurking at the waters edge. We werent sure if she was looking for a cub which got swept away, but it seems she was trying to drink the sea water - perhaps good for her wounded leg. Shame!

Next day it was hiking up to Pen y Fan in the Brecon Becons reserve, the highest peak in southern Britain.

A photo with a view is always a good excuse to disguise ones lack of fitness!

Heading up.

Julie, Me and Paul - missing from the photo is Pete, and the intrepid pooch, Jake.

Anyone who throws a snowball at me is gonna get it!

At the top, and its time for some Myburghian Leaps

Charlines kitty, Pushkie/whiskey

All in all a most adventurous weekend, so a big thanks to Charline and all her fantastic and very kind friends!