Dining on Seafood at Seagulls Beach Hotel, Wild Coast

The Seafood on Saturday nights at Seagulls Beach Hotel on the Wild Coast is just divine!  When we spent one night at Seagulls Beach Hotel in January 2009, we made sure it was a Saturday night so that we could enjoy dining on their famous seafood dishes - and did we eat a lot of seafood and enjoy it?  Of course!  We feasted on delicious and beautifully presented oysters, cockles, prawns, calamari, mussels and fish.  All the seafood eaten in the Seagulls Beach Hotel dining room is refreshingly fresh, and just simply delicious!

Old telephone booth at Naturel in Kei Mouth, Eastern Cape

This old post office telephone booth is pretty antique and can be seen at Naturel in Kei Mouth, about an hour's drive out of East London.  Stooping beneath the tree that shaded the telephone booth, we were hoping to see an antique phone inside, but there was nothing.  We were still impressed with the telephone booth itself though.  A nice glimpse back into history, when one used to have to use coins for dialing, before modern mobile cellphones started to become "normal" everywhere.

Large rose quartz crystal at Naturel in Kei Mouth

Well, we thought this rose quartz crystal was quite large anyway.  There are smaller crystals for sale inside the Naturel deli and restaurant.  Naturel in Kei Mouth, Eastern Cape, sells all kinds of arts and crafts, and a variety of colourful crystals too.  This rose quartz crystal is right at the entrance to the little Naturel shop, and many more little treasures await visitors inside.

Areena giraffe eating Eastern Cape thorn trees for breakfast

This giraffe at Areena Riverside Resort is still young, but already so tall, and is enjoying lovely dark green leaves for breakfast.  The green leaves are amongst the thorns of the sweet thorn acacia thorn tree which grow all over the Eastern Cape.  Acacia sweet thorn trees also make for wonderful bonsai trees. Imagine your own collection of little thorn tree bonsai trees in your own garden, whether you live in the countryside or not. These thorn trees blossom with beautiful puffy yellow blossoms once a year.  It's a wonderful sight to view yellow (thorn tree blossoms), green (thorn trees), and blue (lovely blue skies) all over the countryside at certain times of the year - then, just add a giraffe or two, and you have the perfect countryside.  This giraffe at Areena is fairly tame and you can go right up to it and pet it.  One only really gets the full idea of how tall a giraffe really is when one is standing right next to a giraffe, stroking its head.