After seeing that the weather hadn’t really improved and therefore finding out that the skydive was off we re-shuffled our plans yet again to see what we could managed in lieu. We had a bit of a random start to the day trying to find this little tour office in Knysna so I could see some of the famous Kynsna seahorses. We finally found it in a very isolated section of the Lagoon and combined with the raging storm and gusting winds our visit there had a touch of creepiness to it. Disappointingly no seahorses though.

• Monkeyland. As we only had time for lunch at Monkeyland yesterday we thought that we would take advantage of some free time to do one of the tours around the forest. The tour was okay if a little on the tame side after all the things we’ve already done. Also once again we found that if you weren’t in a family it was hard to get in a good position for things – especially when people were obsessed with taking photos and video footage of all the monkeys. I know that I take lots of photos and video footage myself but I really have to question what all these people were going to do with hours of footage of monkeys in the forest.

• Storms River Suspension Bridge. At the mouth of Storms River the Suspension Bridge offers some great views of the rocks and crashing waves. We only had a short time there so didn’t get the chance to get up to the lookout point. It would have been nice to have more time to explore but as we’d booked a canopy tour a bit of a drive away we had to sort of rush to the bridge, rush back, rush through lunch and then rush to the canopy tour.

• Tsitsikamma Canopy Tour. The Tsitsikamma Canopy Tour was a lot of fun. Sliding from tree to tree through the canopy of the Tsitsikamma Forest is a new way of learning about the nature around you. We were about 30 metres above the canopy floor so it was fairly high up. Each of the slides were surprisingly very quick but you soon got the hang of the braking system (your hands!) I was impressed by the ingenious method of not using one single nail to hold up any of the cabling or platforms on the canopy tour so that the trees remained fairly unharmed. The tour was pretty exhilarating and no matter which platform I was on (whether it was the first or the 15th) stepping off the platform still caused my stomach to drop.

Here is some video of the canopy tour: