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[truemanstravel]

Day 3 - Hottentots Holland Mountains & the zip wires

About 1.5hrs from where we are staying, is the Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve which forms part of the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The scenery is breathtaking and is very reminiscent of Scotland but with better weather and no midges (Paul's words not mine!) But what brings us here is the Cape Canopy Tours which Lonely Planet declared the 2nd best new attraction in the world in 2015. There are 13 zip wires and a swing bridge, all ludicrously high up. The longest slide is 320m long and takes over 30 seconds to complete. It's hard to imagine why I of all people would put myself through this. Well as it turns out, it's because it is fantastic fun and is a cure for fear of heights. Yes folks! I loved it, we all did. You start off with your safety briefing, then a 30 minute bumpy ride (South African massage) up to the start. From there you work your way down the slides to the final longest one before a kilometre hike back to the pick up point and another bumpy ride down. We were gone over 4 hours and it went in a flash

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Ruining a fad: Spell-checked Gen II Pokemon

Courtesy of this place.

Charity - Payable - Magazine Candidacy - Sullivan - Typhoons Toddler - Corcoran - Profligate Centres - Ferret Hotfoot - Unction Leaded - Leading Spinnaker - Radios Acrobat Chinch - Lantern Pickup Clef Gallingly Toggle - Idiotic Anta - Exact Marker - Flay - Amorous Blossom Marital - Summarily Showdown Polite Hopi - Shipload - Jumps Pompom Sunken - Sunflower Yeoman Hooper - Queasier Spoon Numbers Murrow Slowing Misleaders Known Woebegone Graffiti Pinned - Fortress Dancers Glare Steeliest Snubbing - Granule Sailfish Scissor Chuckle Heartaches Senates Treasured - Arising Slug - Macgregor Swings - Polonaise Corolla Remora - Octillion Delivered Anatine Grammars Honour - Hound Kingbird Panky - Donovan Pronghorn Startles Smaller Torque - Hottentots Smooch Liked Magma Militant Blesses Ratios Enter Cuisine Lariat - Pituitary - Tyrant Lucia How Celebes

[fairest]

However I talk

Wanted to post this for H. James' birthday. MT, from Chapter VI, Portrait of a Lady:  

I don't know about novels. I don't suppose they're very accurate. We once had a lady who wrote novels staying here. She was very positive, but she was not the sort of person you could depend on for evidence. She took down my conversation. American peculiarities, nasal twang. Yankee notions, stars and stripes. Well, it was not at all accurate. Of course I talk like an American---I can't talk like a Hottentot. However I talk, I've made them understand me pretty well over here. But I don't talk like the old gentleman in that lady's novel. 

[acelessthan3]

Professor Agassiz, this is Mister Melville, a personal friend. I managed to convince him to leave his farm in Pittsfield for a day or two, though he has much plowing to do. Mister Melville has sailed the seven seas - on the fabled Acushnet, amoung other whalers - and possesses a steady eye and hand that will no doubt serve us well. In addition, Mister Melville shares your literary bent. Perhaps you've read one of his memoirs? Typhee? Omoo?

Lieutenant Davis, Hottentots, Paul Di Filippo, The Steampunk Trilogy

[acelessthan3]

And not just political rebellion did I support, but also individual crimes, for where the law is on the side of the rich, crime is the only resort of the poor. Highwaymen and murderers are my brothers, the whore and the cutpurse my cousins. I sang along with the desperadoes in California.

Feargus Kosziusko, Hottentots, Paul Di Filippo, The Steampunk Trilogy

[jamaisjamais]

here is a picture of a place I'd rather be.