[password] beavis
[position] 29 51.78S 31 01.30E
[weather] diabolical!
[status] We've been hanging out in Durban for almost 2 weeks now, and there's been and continues to be no weather window on the horizon for us to continue on to Cape Town. Last Friday night, we attended a barbeque (called a braai here), and the local sailors told us that the change of seasons is very late this year, thus wreaking havoc with our plans to move on. Our friends Larry and Rox are arriving in Cape Town in late December, and we started getting concerned that if we continued to wait for a weather window, we could get caught out and miss their visit, and that would be totally unacceptable. Fortunately, we had options - we could fly or drive to Cape Town. We decided to fly, and rather than sitting here in Durban until late December, we're flying to Cape Town this week. Upon arrival, we'll rent a car for 10 days and do a road trip along the "Garden Route", which is a highly recommended scenic drive visiting several towns along the southern coast. We'll then spend Christmas and New Years in Cape Town, and fly back to Slip Away in Durban in early January. The local sailors seem to think that the weather will be much improved in early January for us to sail Slip Away to Cape Town. Hope so!!

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