Rod’s been cruising…

Across the sea! All the way from Durban to the Portuguese Island off Mozambique.

Remember Andy and Tracey who took Rod to the Durban July horse races? Well, they also organised a poker cruise, and Alix, Rod and I went along for the experience and to help out a bit.

We were amazed at the amount of trucks we passed between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, and in this video clip there were plenty of trucks before I started filming and plenty after my memory ran out ending my little movie (and I got more memory from Father Christmas, so that won’t happen again- hopefully!)

It was quite an experience on the cruise ship called The Melody. No sooner had we got our sea-legs (even Rod the amphibian had to find his sea legs), then we anchored and spent the day by the Portuguese Island. Then later the next day we started cruising again back to Durban, and had to find our sea-legs again (you feel like you've had one too many Pina Coladas as you stumble around)! Then it takes a few days to get your land-legs back once we were back on African soil!

It was very windy on the top deck, most of the time, and otherwise we spent a lot of time helping Andy and Tracey and dealing cards to the poker players. The beach was so hot on the Portuguese Island, that we enjoyed the swim and saw some huge starfish! And then spent time under the shade cloth that the Cruise staff resurrected for us island adventurers, eating watermelon!

The best part was the trip on the inflatable boat from the cruise ship to the island and back! We got lekka wet : )

Till the next adventure!

Telana