Our house and life in South Africa
Our house in Wilderness, South Africa.
And the views from our veranda.
It was paragliding that brought us to South Africa back in 2000 and we have been back every year since & bought our house here in 2010. Here are some photos taken while paragliding and show the beach that is about 800m behind our house.
And sunset on the beach.
This photo was taken while paragliding at Porterville.
In 2001 we spent 5 months in SA & did our advanced PADDY scuba diving course and did a course of horse riding lessons & enjoyed many long outrides in the mountains and forests in land from Wilderness.
In 2001 we also joined the local running club, the Sedgefield Striders and have remained members ever since, joining them for their weekly 5km time trail on a Wednesday evening and 6am runs on Saturday morning.
Enjoying a coffee after the morning run.
Coffee and cake at ours after a morning run.
A dip in the sea is always a nice way to finish a run run.
We have also joined the local trail running club and join them for their weekly 6km run and have run some of the local trail races. We have learnt that the trail runs here are more like adventure races as they include more jumping over boulders, rock climbling and swimming rather than running. Have a look at this mobile phone movie of one of the local trail runs we have done to see what we mean.
Here are a few photos from some of the other trail/adventure races we have done.
We have joined in with the local road cycling club for their Tuesday and Thursday 6am morning rides. Here is a photo taken with the cyclists after one of the morning rides.
Our trail running friends have also taken us 'kloofing'.
We have also done some motorbiking with friends...
....and now have bought our own motorbike - a Transalp 700.
A couple of photos of us riding it.
