Another pit stop along the drive from Knysna to Mossel Bay. We veered off the N2 up the beautiful Outeniqua Pass through the mountains for a rare breath of fresh, woodsy air. 

Oudtshoorn is an odd place, known for two things: caves and ostriches. (Not together, thank god.) We figured we had to at least see it and then, before I knew it, Mike and talked me into spelunking in the Cango Caves.

My claustrophobia did not love squeezing through a tunnel 27cm tall and up something named, literally, The Devil's Chimney... There may or may not have been profanities echoing through the caves. But, by the end of it, we were happy to have checked the box and seen such huge underground rooms with a unique history (one was used as a concert hall until people started to graffiti the caves and they had to shut it down). 

Sorry about the lack of photos of the caving adventure - the GoPro doesn't do so well in the dark!

After that, since it was getting late, we decided to skip sitting on an ostrich - something you can do at many of the ostrich farms there - a very weird but strangely enticing photo op, huh? Maybe next time. 

At least we got some photos of a few of the gorgeous farm properties in Oudtshroon - the palms and purple trees surrounding white farmmansions in the middle of golden wheat fields and manicured, bright green crops? Yes please. 

On the way back, we took the arguably even more beautiful Robertson Pass, which dropped us pretty much at Mossel Bay's front door. 

We don't have any photos from Mossel Bay since the one full day we spent there was the rainiest we'd seen yet, and so we spent the day at a mall taking advantage of free wifi for planning (and some online stalking) purposes and seeing two movies. Happy Thanksgiving!