Today I thought I'd blog about the things which I like to do. Yesterday I went horse riding for the first time in ages. It's probably been almost 5 years since I last rode a horse and it was fabulous to be back in the saddle. We went up the road past the farms like Weltevrede and then up into the Fynbos covered hills. We saw a trooop of Baboons, a couple of Blue Crane flew low overhead, there was a Brown-Hooded Kingfisher and towards the end of the ride, when we were making our way down through Sir Robert Stanford's vineyards, there was a Steppe Buzzard who flew from the grass, up into the tree and then off and away!
It was a lovely ride and Leighan Pepler's horse who I rode, namely Geronimo, was absolutely sweet with a lovely canter. OK, so he is a bit slow in the walk and rather unfit, but then I can get fitter myself and exercise him at the same time. I think it will be good for both of us and I look forward to riding with Shelley, Janice and Jules again next weekend.
In the spirit of stretching myself and moving slightly out of my comfort zone, in the next two hours I shall be water-skiing with Guy Fergussen on the Klein River. I probably haven't water-ski'd in over 10 years, but who is counting? It may be 15...
