Beach day at last! AIFS is planning two beach days for us by
the end of summer, and today was the first.
We went to Strand beach, a flat sandy beach only about
twenty five minutes away.
On the way there, we stopped at a grocery store. That
offered no vegetarian sandwiches. Will I ever win? Better than that, though, I
found some guacamole and corn chips! Avo, as they call avocado here, is on
practically everything from pizza to breakfast sandwiches. I love it. I also
snagged some chocolate-covered sunflower seeds, which are quite pricey but
worth it in taste.
We spent about three hours lounging out in the sun and playing frisbee on the beach. The beach was completely deserted except for our group of 30 Americans and about a dozen people in green jumpsuits who worked to clean the beach.
One of the most beautiful things about the beach is the
view. Looking to the right and the left, you see hundreds of feet of beach but
then along the edges, it curves off into a point. Along the point you can see
small and large houses of Cape Town along the seaside.
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| The snails nomming on a dead fish...or something. |
Wildlife? I saw the craziest little creatures today. I thought I noticed some hermit crabs racing about so I grabbed one only to find out they were not hermit crabs, but speedy snails! They use their two antennae to pull themselves across and sometimes
under the sand.
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