Day 20: Island Vibe Backpackers

September 24th, 2012

Red sky at night sailors delight, red sky at morning sailors take warning….. Who invented this?

In Canada that phrase works perfectly, in South Africa the weather is unpredictable even when it comes to that handy dandy phrase!

Beauty sunset last night with red as blood skies and the weather was awful this morning. What we planned on doing was some surf lessons, horse back riding on the beach and sand boarding! (take note – we would of had some sick pictures if it didn’t rain) and J Bay is the best place to do all of these excursions, the beach is gorgeous! Instead we had some yummy fruit pancakes from the hostel restaurant, took some sweet surf shots of our friends and joined the staff in their braai! Similar to Canada Day, today is Heritage Day in South Africa! Had a few drinks, ate some delicious traditional food and sat around the braai cooking on the open fire. Oh yeah… Lesson of the day: A BRAAI is similar to a BBQ, chicken and lamb cooked on an open fire with Pap (for those of you actually following the blog, pap is a corn mais dish similar to rice). We then needed to do some classic shopping. No – we actually don’t like shopping but when all you hear about is the amazing sales and deals at this Billabong Outlet in J Bay, you need to check it out!

After a tour around J Bay with Taise, the owner of the hostel, we went shopping! I spent 35 Cdn dollars on 2 Element shirts and a pair of Billabong pants – pretty sweet! There’s something about this place that makes you want to kick back in a blanket and relax on the beach! I’m never leaving 🙂