February 21 and 22and 23, Durban, South Africa

I am making up for a month of not walking. Enjoying just walking along the beach, stopping for coffee at different places along the way. Interesting as there are no people selling goods on the beach, but if on the street there are lots of people looking for food or money. The weather here is very nice and does not get cold so people could live outside.


February 20 Durban, South Africa

Went on a tour of Moses Mabhida Stadium today. This stadium holds 56,000 right now and was built for the 2010 World Cup and will host the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2022 Commonwealth games. It is not used much at the moment as the home team is no longer in the premier league. Too bad, a very nice facility. The art work is really something else. A map of Africa with something like 3 million beads. Very nice.

I also took the sky car up along the top of the main beam in the centre of the building. Great views of ocean, city and surrounding fields. My timing was good as shortly after the wind got really strong and they stopped doing the sky car rides.

The wind blew very hard all afternoon. I got sand blasted on the beach as there is no where to get out of the wind. Lots of thunder and lightning in the early evening! Window rattling thunder! Great storm, lots of rain but did not last that long.




February 19 Durban, South Africa

The sun shone all day today! Very nice. It felt very hot, but was only 29. Actually got in swimming today. Each beach has a designed swimming area (between flags) as well as designed surfing, boarding areas and jet skiing areas. The waves are crazy wild and choppy but the water is 20/21 so very nice.

The surf rescue was kept busy keeping people swimming in the right area. They also were looking for someone.... but did not seem to find anyone. Not sure what happened but they were out looking by swimming and with 2 rubber dingies.

Trucks and quads zooming up and down the beach.
Spent an hour chatting with a guy from Johannesburg... covered a lot of ground. Very interesting and all of this sitting on step on hotel!


February 17 & 18 Durban, South Africa

Cloudy and cool days with rain showers, thunderstorms blowing through.
Still was out for walking. The beach here is about 6 km long, the hotel is about 4 km across the street from the beach, with views! Very nice. An older hotel but they are working on fixing up. Breakfast is amazing! More food.
The city has done a super job of the beach area. There is a brick promenade all the way along the beach. There are plenty of showers, toilets and change rooms along the 6 km. There are several piers that separate the beaches. Lots of little cafes, coffee shops and fast food places. It is really very nice. A great place to relax after the last 30 days!


February 16, Durban, South Africa.

A 9 am, 2 hour flight to Durban. Got checked in and then went for lunch down the street. My room as a view of the ocean. There are several surfers on the water. Relaxed for the afternoon. It is the first almost full day of nothing to do or any place to go. I would have gone for a walk but it started to rain. Cool at 24 compared to what the weather has been like!