It rains here too

After the spectacular sunrise, Tuesday turned into a grey cool damp day. We stayed dry for our morning bird walk and got some great views of the Greater Flamingos, 

African Darter

Greater Flamingos

but by the time we’d had breakfast and driven to De Mond at the Southern end of the Vlei, the rain had arrived. Decided to head back to reception and take advantage of their Wifi.

Lunch in the cottage and then back to Koppie Alleen as the rain eased. What a difference a day makes – Monday was 26C and bright sunshine while today is no more than 16C and grey with regular showers marching through – at least it justified bringing all that gear to keep us warm and dry.

After an hour or so watching the whales from the shelter of the Café, we had a great walk along the dunes as the sun finally appeared– seems like it’s the adult whales which are breaching and tail-slapping today – with a few of the calves following their lead. Rarely less than four whales in the field of vision of my binoculars – hard to know which ones to focus on.

Dinner in the restaurant this evening – first time we have seen any of our fellow guests – good people watching as ever. I was slightly worried that the ‘domestic’ at the table behind me might come to blows at one point.