We went to the Serkfontein Caves today and they were really nice! The caves were formed by natural erosion and are made up of limestone. Its was amazing to see a lake, still in the middle of the entire cave, 3 meters deep and 70 meters wide. it was very hard to see even if there was a hand right up against my nose! We saw a few bats sleeping up in a small crack, and was afraid that they might wake up! Then we entered a HUGE chamber, so open and extremely wide. It amazed me to see that nature could have done all this on its own.

The Serkfontein Caves are one of the most fossil-filled caves in South Africa. Little Foot, literally a fully completed skeleton, was found there, and is still being excavated today! I'm a sucker for fossils, and I'm glad I got to see part of Africa's Cradle of Humankind.

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Sanccob

"Sanccob is a penguin/sea bird hospital in cape town."

The minute I heard that, I drifted off into heaven. I've always wanted to do something in the medicine field (or play the jiebe) and I absolutly LOVE penguins!

They do have a volunteer program, and you can intern there. They showed us how to feed the sick penguins, their cute little swimming pool for excersize, and the medications and vitamins they give them.

Guess what? I HELD A PENGUIN!!!! I HELD A PENGUIN!!!! I HALD A PENGUIN!!!! Well, auctcally two!!! One, an old maccorini penguin that had washed up on the shore, and another african penguin, that had catarax and could never be released. It was awesome!!!!! Imm defintally going to go back!!

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PENGUINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE SAW PENGUINS!!!! WE SAW PENGUINS!!!! WE SAW PENGUINS!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I was super excited.

We saw the south african penguins (aka jackass penguins) and they were the cutest things ever! I couldn't believe I was seeing my favorite animal without fluing to antarctica! Although that is another destination thru DSA...

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Cape point

Cape point is probably one of the most beautiful places on earth. The atlantic and indian oceans merge here, and the lighthouse there had a breathtaking view! I also bought lots of things while there, sorry bout the credit bill mom!! (:

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SHARK DIVE!!!!!!! Pt. 2

Ok so today we had to be up by 6:20 and get on the coach (bus) for a two hour ride to SHARK ALLEY! I fell asleep on the bus ride, as did everyone else, but woke up the latest and apparently missed some of the most natural and beautiful scenery! I woke up just in time though to see a couple small waterfalls, gigantious mountains, exotic shrubbery, and the sun rising over it all. It was breathtakingly beautiful. Of course I tried taking pictures, and of course a majority didn't turn out right. (:

Then we reached the ocean. I hadn't seen the ocean, let alone any other body of water besides my brother's bath water, in what felt like 12 trillion years, so I was suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper excited to finally see it again after have been raised by the ocean when I was younger. IT WAS A W E S O M E. Not like the 'heeey duude!' Type awesome, like the fancy and mature form of the word type awesome. The deep blue waves were small and rolled into the dark rocks with no sense of form, then crashing with a woosh and melting into white clouded sea foam. And I'm dead serious. It was that poetically shown.

After being hypnotized for a few seconds, we went inside to get our waivers turned in (yes, my mommy signed my life away) and ate some breakfast there. I had coca puffs. The last time I had those, I choked on them. I honestly don't know why I did choose to eat them, I just did. :) I also had some poppy seed bread and milk.

Then we went off to get an educational lecture about the great white sharks. Joy. Suprisingly, it was quite entertaining! Did you know that female sharks are BIGGER than the male sharks? Well I auctcally did but it was intersting to see how much everyone learned!

then, it was time to dive. I wasn't scared at all! It was just the fact that I was motion sickened that made it terrible. I felt more terrible than any plane flight combined! It was really really really really really really really bad. But it was all worth it when we got in the cage! It was probably the only thing that I never thought I'd ever do! But was completly worth the motion sickness!

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Drumming circle

Mom, dad, I'm going to become a professional jieba drummer when I grow up. Forget about all the scientifical biomedical research geneticist science surgeon mumbo jumbo. This was THE coolest thing ever!!!!!! After we got back from shark alley, we went to our host's home for dinner, and there was drumming omming from the inside as we walked in. the music was really cool! We then each got a drum, and soon we started to learn to create different sounds and different rythms. The only down part was that my hands hurt like crazy afer all the drumming! They were literally throbbing red! Soon we started to incorperate cow bells, bead shakers, and dancers. yup! Dnacers! And guess who got to go dance? MR.COCHRANE. Hahaha it was really funny how embarrassed he was, but a few others went up with him, I was on the cow bell, and we had 2 different beats going while they all danced. It was amazingly fun!!!!!!!!!! Then dinner was phenonomal with vegtable soup, meat pie with chicken and beef, creamed corn, butternut squash, yellow rice and raisins. And for dessert, we had this cake pudding substance with warm melter custard over it. Bon appetite!

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SHARK DIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE DOVE WITH SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Most amazing experience of my life!!!!!!!!!!!! Besides the fact I got the WORST sea sick out of everyone! Yup! I wasn't the only one sick this time!!!! :) but it was prety bad...more information will come tomorrow about today, we have the busyist day tomorrow, and I need to pack!!!!

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