A very kind lady let us use her flat in Umdloti and it was absolutely beautiful there! We got to watch all sorts of massive ships deliver things to Durban and saw the beginning of the
sardine run. Sadly, we missed it by about a week, but it was exciting nonetheless!
Because South African homes are usually running on propane instead of natural gas like in the western U.S. their dryers are not very effective, or use so much electricity that they keep blowing circuits. Instead we hung our clothes to avoid power-outages, however, because it was often very humid things like jeans took
forever to dry. After talking to our cousins we discovered that everyone irons everything, probably to get the remaining moisture out of clothes--boy I'm glad I don't have to do that everyday!
We went to another ghetto-looking-but-surprisingly-awesome park, a bird one called Umgeni River. There were tons of different varieties of birds and a fairly good bird show. There was a fun aviary area where you could feed birds and they would come to eat from your hand and poop on you.
One morning in the flat I grabbed my camera to take a picture of a lovely sunrise and discovered that the LSD screen had been cracked! I guess some mysterious being picked it up to look at pictures and dropped it. We had been warned that monkeys liked to break in, and although we didn't see one the entire time we stayed there, maybe they pulled a sneaky mission just to destroy my camera? Either way, it was not very fun to have to share a camera with my family the rest of the trip.
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