coming home tomorrow!

Coming home tomorrow is not entirely accurate since we leave here on the 8th and arrive in Portland the 9th twenty six hours later. Ugh.
Yesterday we went with Kirsten, Chris and family for a day of surfing and sight seeing. Pretty fun, though I hadn't really had that on my agenda for this trip. Definietly a good surf place to surf, allthough the water requires a short wet suit. I could have been out a half hour to an hour without one I suppose but it did have a bit of chill to it.
We only stayed an hour. I spent the first half hour helping Kelly and Sarha do some lessons, and then went out for about 20 minutes into the crowded line up and caught a couple of nice shoulder high waves taking the last one to the beach. It was only one hour because just as I was about to go back out and loud siren went off, and everyone scrambled for the beach! It was a shark sighting. Appartently they have people dedicated to watching for them, and they sound the alarm and raise a white flag with a black shark on it. I guess it is quite an uncommon occurance as a guy I was talking to said it was only the 3rd time in 15 years that he had been called out. Another said it was the third time this week. I don't know where the truth lies there. Anyway, we were in a place called False Bay, and another fellow told me that this is where most of the video/photos of Sharks getting seals comes from. There is a Boil in the ocean a few miles out that the locals call the sharks snack bar. The only injury I got was when Sarha fell of the surf board sitting squarely on my head with all of her weight. I could hear the grisle in my vertebral discs as the flattened momentarily. A little stiff today with a skid mark on my head.
Adding to the blis (it really was fun) was the fact that it was another 100 degree day. Leaving surfing, we went from the beach to large garden called KirstenBosch. It had an enormous nnumber of plants and trees, and undoubtedly a nice place when it is under 90 degrees, but we were melting and didn't stay long.
Mercifuly, the temperature dropped into the 80's today and was more tolerable. We just wondered around looking for last minute souveniers finding a few. We have a final dinner with our compadres tonight, and may watch a bike race in the morning with them.
There is apparently a large bike race with over 30,000 entrants. We will see. Anyway, be seeing you all soon.... JK
Still no luck getting photos from here sent. We will try to flood you from the airport if that becomes an option...