We again woke to light rain & wonder if this is the weather pattern in Simon’s Town at this time of the year? It’s been windy late afternoon & early evening with the wind dying down about 8pm.
The pasta Richard made last night was delicious.
We packed & we’re meet by by hosts to say goodbye at 9.30am. Our hosts used to live in South Yarra in Melbourne, although they are both English, he was in advertising & knew of The Savage Club. They have recommended the Addo elephant park as a must see.
We stopped for coffee again at the blue door coffee roasters & made our way along the coast before heading inland at Muizenberg Beach. We drove out past numerous townships & noticed groups of males waiting beside the road, Richard thought they may be waiting for work & if you needed help you drive along & collect the number of “men” you required.
We had a good journey & only took 1 wrong turn, quickly realising this within a couple of hundred metres. We left the table mountain range behind & the landscape became very dry, flat & brown.
We saw the sea again at Melkbosstrand & followed the West Coast Road for about 100kms. This road was a single lane both directions but with wide hard shoulders, Richard had read about overtaking on these roads & has now mastered the art of pulling across onto the hard shoulder when someone wanted to overtake in either direction & it seemed to work really well.
We also learnt that you put your hazards on briefly as a thank you & that become my task.

We stopped in Vredenburg for some shopping & arrived in Paternoster about 1.15pm. We were too early to check in so looked for somewhere for lunch. Our host at Top Sail had recommended The Noisy Oyster & as I was getting a bit hangrey we headed in there. We ended up sharing an entree of stir fried calamari, I had a beautiful fish stew & Richard had angel fish & we shared a nectarine & lemon baked cheesecake. It was more than we’d planned to eat for lunch but was really nice. The restaurant was quirky with some bench tables & bench chairs with cushions & some tables & chairs, as it was outside at the back (although enclosed by a fence & some areas had a roof, there were trees in the dining area which had large pieces of material suspended as shade, as well as 2 “huts” with banquette seating & lower tables. Just before dessert the owners dog arrived - Becs, & was assisting with the floor clean up!!
We then checked into our lovely fisherman’s cottage. It has 3 French doors with outside louvres & 9 windows with louvres & a stable door. The outside is the traditional white, the louvres blue & the inside a pale blue.
We had a quiet afternoon & had just the steak & a small salad which we’d planned for dinner.
As we’d been warned about the crime rate in Paternoster by numerous people we were careful whilst unpacking the car, made sure valuables can’t be seen through the windows & also closed all the louvres before we went to bed.