Knysna, Hogsback and Coffee Bay

After leaving Cape Town at 7 a.m. on a Thursday morning, I travelled to the tourist town of Knysna.

While working in Cape Town I'd heard great things about Knysna. "It's beautiful," people screamed. "It's the best place in South Africa," others admonished.

But without a car, your range of activities is pretty much non-existent. Still, I did take a nice bike ride to the heads and shot some film, though mostly black and white. I'm still waiting to get that developed.

A few days later I headed to the place where dreams are made. Hogsback. Waterfalls, mountains, jungle, parrots, monkeys, vines and the world at your feet. Yes, I fell in love with Hogsback and I hope the two of us can resume our relationship in the not so distant future.

After four days (it was supposed to be two) I and some friends took off for Coffee Bay for the Coffee Shack's third anniversary b-day party. Yes, good times...those that I can remember.

Photo by Phil Bradshaw, 2003

Where Hogsback was beautiful for its romantic English gardens and huts and its amazing natural qualities, Coffee Bay was a shock. The people lived the way they had for hundreds of years, if you didn't count the illegal shabeen, the kids offering to take foreigners on tours and, of course, those same kids selling marijuana to anyone who was interested.

Photo by Phil Bradshaw, 2003

After Coffee Bay was Port St Johns where we just partied a little but by then I was starting to think about working again. Yup, what can I say, it never stops. Next stop...Durban!

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