The experience of last night already seemed far away when I woke at first light. Dan was passed out beside me but I couldn’t go back to sleep so I grabbed my laptop and got up, sitting on a park bench just outside the car, looking out over the ocean. I blogged as the sky…

I had all sorts of good intentions to get up and go for a surf at sunrise to try and beat the crowds, but nothing of the sort happened. It was too tempting to stay in bed when a marine layer of fog had fallen over the beach. We were late risers this morning, with…

We were one of the first to rise out of the van campers, I was thinking that everyone must have stayed up much later. I was fixing to go for a walk into town since we needed some supplies so we hooked Cleo up and started walking along the top of the cliffs. The Astro…

We woke up when we wanted to wake up and we did what we’d been looking forward to for a while – we had showers. The wind had died down so it was warm enough to do so. We both treated ourselves to a three bottle shower (it normally takes just two). I scrubbed and…

At some point in the night, I was surprised by a pitbull tongue in my face. Cleo was scared of the noise the wind made and wanted a cuddle in bed, thinking that a lick in the face would be a perfect way to ask the question. Apart from that, we had a sound sleep,…

Our first blissful sleep in a while and our first city camp, we woke up late. Dan wasn’t happy, he’d been bitten all through the night by something or other and had bites all down his legs. He was pissed they’d only attacked him and not me. There was nothing we could see to tell…

Despite the noise of the night, we’d both slept ok, sleeping well past sunrise. Keen to do the hike we’d missed yesterday, as soon as we were up, we had a quick round of cereal for brekkie, then drove out of camp for the last time. Lidia and Christian were still asleep in their tiny…

Despite the heavy sleeping caused by our drunken state, our night was disturbed by tailgaters partying right next door. We don’t know how long we conked out for, but at some time in the night, the noise around us became unbearable and we moved the car to the back of the parking lot. As Dan…

We had a pretty good sleep considering the base died away some time during the night and the lights in the palm trees next to us were turned off. As usual, we woke with first light, but contrary to our normal behaviour, Dan got us straight out of bed to go and see the sunrise….

Cleo woke us, just like a kid on Christmas morning, climbing into her parents’ bed to inform them it was morning and time to open the presents! We obliged, opening the back door to a clearing marine fog over the waves. We all used the bathroom before retreating back into the van for a couple…