All is well at Birkenhead House. We were delayed in London by three hours. Our VIP service did the trick on arrivial in JNB and we just made the plane to CPT with minutes to spare. Off to BH with much anticipation.

The sun was shining and nice weather predicted for all the days in the Cape Town area. Not everyone knew each other but it was apparent right away this was not going to take long for this group to bond. Lunch on the BH terrace looking at the ocean - a wonderful start.

The next morning most of us did the animal training farm. I really enjoyed that and Ken will be posting some pictures hopefully right after this post. They tell the story. We were able to pet a very friendly zebra, 15 month old lions, cheetahs and see so many other animals. This is a place that trains animals for movies. Very interesting. Paul and Maddy went ocean kyaking and said it was the best kyaking anywhere they had been in the world with dolphins swimming all around them.

The shark tour hit a cold day and it took a while for the sharks to come BUT they came back telling stories of a lot of funny episodes and some great pictures. Most of them got in the cage - brave souls! Those left behind took a short drive to see flamingos and visted and ate and ate and then ate some more! Mussells, Kingklip (wonderful South African fish) followed at dinner by more mussells and Kingkip (on request) and an absolutely fantastic rack of lamb (from an experts point of view).

So after three wonderful days a truly bonded group of friends are off to La Residence. We leave in a few hours I hope Ken gets a few pictures posted before we leave.