Glorious Scarborough

Enjoying Mate's on the beach with Elena and Co.

Luka with Auntie Elena

I've written about our amazing seaside village before.  For those of you not familiar with it, Scarborough is situated about 40mins drive south of Cape Town.  As a conservation village we try our best to co-exist with the native Chachma Baboon population, and enjoy gorgeous days on the beach and on the mountainside behind our home.

But it is the people of this place that make it so special.  From the old timers who still live in beach shacks they occupied back in the 1960s and 1970s before there was electricity or roads, to the couple of regularly cook and entertain locals with catering and take out meals, to the South American couple who are like a young set of parents to us all, complete with oversight of the neighborhood watch and most social gatherings.  It is, to put it mildly, a spectacular place.  Here kids still run in the street, skateboard to the beach, dogs run and play off-leash, people warm their homes with wood-fired stoves, neighbors know each other, and television takes a backseat to hikes, beach walks, surfing, and biking.

Our new friends here will be sorely missed when we return to Timor, where our other friends from our other life await us, and whom we are extremely excited to see.

Kids with surfboards.