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We woke early and had another wonderfully presented breakfast and special orders taken by Frank, the proprietor. Four of us had preplanned to take a kayak trip on the Klein River, even though the weather still looked rather doubtful. We met two women guides from Walker Company with “sit upon” yellow plastic kayaks – not like my kayak at home – and started our trek down the river. It was surrounded by tall grass like growth on both sides making it a haven for a lot of different bird species. A few trees had colonies of large birds – I am not a birder, so just enjoyed the sight of so many nameless ones in one place.

Our guides has a lunch place preplanned, so we stopped at a large B&B on the riverside and had a lunch of sandwiches, fruit and snacks. One guide was a native and the other an Australian, recently married to a South African. It made for some interesting discussion, especially with our newly elected president in the US.

After our return trip, we were hungry again and found a little restaurant in an art gallery in the small town of Stanford. As usual the meal was delicious and the owner evenb prepared us something not on the menu.

Our next stop for the night was Lalapanza, a beautiful fairly new wood and stone constructed building with rooms overlooking Somerset West. It was located in the middle of a country estate and large vineyard with horse stables nearby. There were also a number of hiking trails and a small pool. After a wonderful dinner, mine a specially prepared vegetarian pasta, Mary and I did some star gazing in the clear sky with minimal interfering light.

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