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After a house load full of Guests for Christmas and New Year we took time out this week with the kids to the beach at Scottburgh.. our favourite camping spot just a short distance down the south coast.
The sun is shining bright and it's a public holiday today in South Africa so we're off to the beach... let's hope we can find some hot beach bodz at Scottburgh where we are headed.
Can you believe it is mid-winter in Durban and this is still the weather we enjoy?.. it's an all-year city which is why we love it. Our temperature ranges between 18c in winter to 35c in summer. And today is another glorious day.
With such awesome weather on the east coast during April, the beach is abo
ut the best place to be. Here is Llewellyn at our campsite at Scottburgh, about an hour's drive south of Durban, where we spent the last few days with the kids just chilling, walking on the beach, flying kites and enjoying our national past-time - a good old South African braai, or barbeque as foreigners might know it.
Llewellyn and I have just returned from an awesome 10-day jaunt to the Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan island of Thailand. What a party!!! One Life, One Party was our slogan for the 5 mates joined there by 2 others to make a 7-pack team of crazy savages who partied each day on the beach. In the photos are from top - Dave and Llewellyn with war-paint for the Party, dancing with friend Cheyn in a Bangkok nightclub, on the ferry to one of the islands, Dave and Llewellyn on the railings of the Mellow Mountain Pub overlooking Had Rin Beach where the party takes place, and bottom picture, working out some directions outside the Royal Palace in Bangkok.
The heat is on in Durban the next two weeks as our main outdoor events of the year take advantage of Durban's sizzling winter sun. This Saturday it's the Vodacom Durban July - South Africa's Premier horseracing event and fashion extravaganza. Of course we will be there along with our Guests coming for the dress-up and fashion - also South Africa's top fashion event of the year. The traditional 13th Race (YouTube video clip) is one in which the guys bare all down to their jocks and take a sprint down the main straight to the finish while the fashion fundis look on agog. And the after-parties are legendary. Durban's gay club The Lounge is hosting a 330 after-party which will see Durban rock till sunrise.
And for those wanting a little less dress-up, and some more hot bodies, the boyz will be out on the beach for the Beach Festival and Mr Price Pro international surfing event that has made Durban famous over it's 30+ year history. So Durban's where the action is this July. 
You'd never believe it's winter in South Africa - but not in Durban here on the sunny east coast. We've just enjoyed a long-weekend of glorious sunshine and joined our guest Darren (from London) at North Beach where the sun and surf was awesome.
