We packed up all our gear and headed to the airport. SAA (South Africa Airways) were on strike and no one had any idea how long it would last... This sucked!

For the first time things started to get really "eggy" as the guys described it.

We had returned the rental cars and were stranded in the airport with no flights going anywhere! SAA kept telling us one thing and then changing their story. They could fly us to Cape Town and then to Port Elizabeth but not straight to PE. Then they said maybe they could but we should wait longer until they were sure...

The guys were getting pissed off. Everyone wanted to get to J-Bay but no one knew how to do it. Everyone had their own ideas of what to do and no one could decide who to listen to.

I sat with Adam and we decided that we'd love to drive the guys to J-Bay. The coast from Durban to PE is know as the Wild Coast and is as African as South Africa gets! It has a bad reputation from the old days when white people were told NEVER to go there as they would not leave there alive. This is what Pottz remembers of the Wild Coast and he refused to drive through it.

Pottz then told the other guys about what he knew and Adam and I were having a VERY tough time trying to convince them to do the drive. "This was supposed to be a Drive Thru not a Fly Thru" I said. "Adam and I LOVE the Transkei and it has epic surf!!! Let's do it! Let's drive to J-Bay!"

Eventually the guys agreed to let us take them through the Wild Coast to J-Bay.

On getting the thumbs up Adam and I ran out of the airport to the car rental office to find they had already rented out our cars. It took almost an hour for them to replace them but at last we had transport and we went back to the backpackers to rest before we did the big road trip south the next day.