This was a Tour of many firsts! To start off with, this was our first Tour for the 2013 / 2014 Summer Season and it was also our first Family Tour! We welcomed Andrey, Masha and their 4-year old son, Mark, onto Tour with us!

It was also the first time we’d done such an early season Tour, starting at the end of October! All in all we had plenty sunshine, lots of warm weather and plenty good surf! Proving once again that, weather wise, it’s very difficult to go wrong on South Africa’s Garden Route coastline!

As an added bonus, this early season Tour gave us some incredible whale-watching opportunities, both land based, in Hermanus, and boat based, in Plettenberg Bay! Generally speaking, migratory whales such as the Humpback and Southern Right Whales pass through South African waters from late winter until early summer. And while we…