S1 - Ep 363 - Ramsgate - Proved to be a Truly Gratifying Experience!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2023
- We were captivated by the breathtaking drive from Port Edward to Ramsgate, opting for a less-travelled scenic route due to the very busy main road. Along the way, our love for exploring led us to discover a charming old bridge, which we delighted in checking out. The culinary highlight of our visit to this charming coastal village was the delectable waffles at the renowned Waffle House, the dessert being an irresistible delight we wished to savour repeatedly. Taking a walk through the area, we were treated to the humorous sight of playful and mischievous monkeys and the walk through Tanglewood enchanted us with its natural beauty. Our time in Ramsgate proved to be a truly gratifying experience, weaving together picturesque landscapes, delectable indulgences and memorable encounters with wildlife. #DustBugs #adventuretravel #southafrica #southafricavlog #travelongravel #ramsgate #kwazulunatal #portedward
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I loved my time in Ramsgate, Margate and Cape Town! Best wishes to SA.
A lovely trip down memory lane for you, Sonia - an altogether amazing introduction to this beautiful region for me, all thanks to both of you - and I join you in proclaiming myself rendered “speechless”, Curtis. There is just so much to take in.
It was almost a whole new introduction to the area for us too, we haven't been there in that long! I'm so glad you're enjoying the gorgeousness which is this part of the South Coast of KZN. We have a lot more to show you! 🚙🤩
And again the camera man surprises me with his skill, SMOOTH Curtis, not a wobble. BD
I will say it again and again - Natal is a beautiful part of our country. Everything is green and it is nature at its best!
The Meuseum, county jail and saloon was super cool to visit. The vegetation and tress are so beuatiful. The sea is so
nice and have a tranquil effect on a person. They really have all you could wish for there - river, sea & nature at its best.
Wow wish I could visit the crayfish inn! So it is only us here at Strand that has a tidal pool! Nice properties in Ramsgate.
Thank you so much for this trip it was stunning and like you say "gratifying experience. My seat is booked as the next one will surely be as rewarding as this one was!
I'm glad you were transported to the wild, wild, West with me! It really was a super cool place! 🤠🏜️ It's incredible how many rivers are in this area and so many of them run into the ocean, it's quite spectacular! 🤩🌊 And the green you speak of, is absolutely everywhere! Their tidal pool almost looks like a rim pool, quite fancy! 😁 See you on Saturday!
Know the town well. When I was still a teenager, from grade 10 to 12 we used to deliver The Sunday Tribune and Sunday Times for pocket money , pick from Durban and deliver all the way down the South Coast right up to Port Edward. Doing that I had the opportunity to see all the small towns on the South Coast. That's is what we did as youngsters during those days. Today young people are just glued to their cell phones.
You certainly got to know the area well that way! 🗞️ Sometimes I can't even believe that there was a time before cellphones. 🤷🏻♂️
Mesmerizing.
Love it when you go into the rough areas.
When I was a teenager this used to be a Chinese restaurant, called the house of the blue lagoon, if you look at the entrance it has a Chinese look to the arches I'm going back about 50 years ago, oh dear I've given away my age😊
😂😂I thought I've seen it all until I saw the police fishing and with the police vehicle 😂. No where else would you witness that lol, maybe they were off duty but it's still funny though. SA is some kind of special and I love it ❤. I think ive fallen inlove with this place, loved the wild west museum and the beautiful greenery of the plants and trees. Love the waffle house such a peaceful atmosphere with so much scenery and the cheeky monkeys is so cute lol, it makes me so happy to see that no one is to bothered with the monkeys and not hurting them or throwing rocks at them. Beautiful sandy beaches. Places that you've never heard of are wonderful gems with so much beauty
Howsit, I left SA in 1969 for Aus., and am so homesick at the moment, I am truly grateful for your TH-cam content, absolutely loving 🥰 it.
Baie dankie.
Have to go sorry need to watch Toti. Safe and happy travels.
Greetings to you in Aus! 🙋🏻♂️ I'm glad our videos can ease the homesickness somewhat. I hope you enjoyed Toti! 🚙🏖️
I remember when we went there when I was a kid, it was always the forests that got me the most excited (so I can relate). I still love them, of course. My brother was in conservation when he was young, so I'm unfortunately too aware of the exotics, and those that would need removing if it were possible to remove them, so I can't see them entirely as I did. If every time you go through a forest, and there's someone with you pointing out the syringas, the jacarandas, the bugweed, the lantana, the chromalina odorata, the Brasilian peas, ... and so on, from then on you start to see them. It would be just as possible to just be on the lookout for the indigenous trees, though. There are still plenty of those. Main benefit of them over, say a gum tree, is that each one has its own caterpillars, and so, its own butterflies (and various beetles and so on, too.)
That fern looks a lot like the beautiful ferns they have on the floors of the forests at Kloof Gorge Nature Reserve. Beautiful, but also alien, and in the process of choking out everything else there. Seeing as there's almost no chance of the process being reversed, I suppose the right thing to do is just get used to them. That's the new reality, and a new ecosystem will evolve around these new dominant species, just as has always been the case on Earth, since forever. It's just that this time _we_ are the extinction event for most current extinctions. World record for a single species (in impact or whatever.) Maybe we should just turn that around and be proud of ourselves. :D
Yup, I'll just enjoy them for how beautiful they are, whether they be indigenous or alien. 🌳💚 I think the world, and especially our country, is facing much bigger problems at the moment.
Wonderful episode brings back lots of memories of our family holidays there also Port Efldward!!!
Thank you, I'm happy that you enjoyed this episode and that it reminded you of happy times! 🚙😁
You did a blèrie awesome job of capturing the gorgeous ramsgate. Thoroughly enjoyed that. Been there many times did all that and more. You put me in a good mood. 🎉 Thanks 🎉....ugh you guys
Sonia I hear your excitement as memories come flooding back. Quite endearing. ❤❤❤❤
I see this was a bumper trip for both of you ❤❤❤
Thank you, I'm so very happy you approve! 🤩 It was actually quite easy to make Ramsgate look good to be honest. 🚙😁 My darling wife's emotions were running away with her, we knew it was always going to be tough for her to go back to this area. It sounds like you had some awesome times there too.
Brought back great memories of the Tea house of the Blue Lagoon as it was called then over sixty years ago and the Crayfish Inn where we spent the first night of our honeymoon over fifty years ago ! Many thanks for the trip down memory lane ❤
You're very welcome, we're always happy to remind our viewers of good times in their own lives. Your memories sure sound like they are exactly that, thank you for sharing with us. 🚙🦞
we all know pistol piet, the donkey resident use to get so aggressive when you didint feed him beer. He was the local alcoholic :) so many memories
Yes.... I remember the donkey...
Wonderful bird calls
Love the music
So glad you enjoyed! 🤠🐦
Please visit us at Sebenza Village at Ramsgate, rustic and quiant wooden huts which make up shops and a beautiful garden centre
Wafels met hartige topping…. mmmwhaa geef mij maar die heerlijke lading zoetigheid met dat ijs en caramel, heerlijk 😋😋😋. Al klinkt die vegetarische moussaka op dat menu bord ook zalig. Een heus smul paradijs voor die schattige aapjes, en wat zijn ze pijlsnel! De cowboy bar ziet er ook geweldig uit, wat een creativiteit en geweldig uitzicht vanaf het terras. Eigenlijk verwachtte ik dat je daarna met cowboyhoed en sigaret in de hand in de Kwid zou stappen 😄🐎. Vroeger was ik altijd blij dat mijn vader niet rookte, vanwege de cowboy Marlboro man, die in de reclame het roken ontdekte, prompt van huis weg ging en de wijde wereld in trok. Verder blijf ik heel aangenaam verrast door dit deel van KZN met de geweldige groene omgeving, de schijnbaar goede asfaltwegen en fraaie huizen en natuurlijk de oceaan steeds vlakbij. Nu nog even een treinstation zien te vinden … 😊🚂 en het Afrikaans lijkt hier ook geen prominente voertaal. Enfin de Voortrekkers konden ook niet overal aanwezig zijn, er moest ook nog wat voor die Britten overblijven 😇
I've been away for a while so not watched the channel. I've got so much to catch up on!! Thanks guys I can't wait. Love from the saffa in the uk ❤
You've got some serious catching up to do, yes! 🚙🤩 I hope you enjoy every single one you missed out on. Enjoy! 😍
Ramsgate a beautiful holiday destination I know for sure that you guys really enjoyed yourselves ❤❤❤
That we did, great observation! 🚙😁 Thank you for coming along!
Home.
Its memory lane time again, The waffle house, lots of time spent there, We had my mom's 80th birthday lunch in the restaurant just off the parking lot. After the banana farms have filled their quoto all the left over bananas have to be thrown away, my dad used to play golf and would want bananas if he won hence there were always bananas in their home.
Good memories are so precious! 😊 It just made sense that we combined waffles and bananas for our first return visit to Ramsgate in almost twenty years! 🍌🥞
My wife comes from ramsgate, Kent , uk … so we had to spend time in ramsgate, natal , when in South Africa,1966.
That was a long time ago! A lot has changed, but a lot has stayed the same too, which was great to see. 🚙😊
So glad you're showing us this part of our country. We've only been as far south from Durban as Margate and that was almost 50 years ago. So we will be traveling along (and stay quiet on the back sheet).
And we were so happy to finally revisit and explore this part of our country again, it's been way too long! 😍🇿🇦 Much more to come for you to enjoy. Don't be too quiet back there! 😁
@@DustBugsTravel 😂I'm squeezed in between there Dora and as excited as a kid (PJ the noisy one😋) Such a wonderful wonderful day DustBugs!! 🤞
Thanx for a wonderful outing!!!!!!!!!!
Anytime! I'm so glad you enjoyed Ramsgate. 🚙😁
Happy memories 😅
As long as they're happy ones, I'm all good! 🚙😁
How beautiful is the old bridge! Definitely a painting. Love the bird calls you picked up while visiting the bridge. Those umbrella shaped trees are usually acacia. The artwork on the front of Pistols made me laugh. Especially the shot guy dragging the chair over!🤣😂Thanks for the tour of the museum, very interesting, just very thankful not to be emptying that spittoon on the bar counter! I have only been once to Natal and that was many years ago. We went across from Eastern Free State to visit rellies in Durban. I have missed out on a tropical paradise! Reminds me strongly of Mauritius and the Seychelles where we went on honeymoon. The monkeys are so cute, I have seen these before along the garden route and also in Hogsback. Mmmm...lime was always my fave milkshake flavour, in the days when I could still drink them and stay slim. Havent had a waffel in years, last one I think was a sorry soggy spur spectacle! Well, I hope those monkeys have good dentists to cope with all that sugar. So funny to watch them. Yep...vigilant, while camera takes in a high wall with electric wires. Dont forget, we are in Africa. Swanky party: where you have to bee hive yourself. Hanky-panky party: where no one bee hives.
This part of KZN is a tropical paradise for sure! 🌴🌊 The old bridge was rusty and charming and super cool to see. The waffles were every bit as good as we remember them and I think we may very well try that banoffee one at home. Divine, let me tell you! 🥞😍 Endless entertainment was provided by those mischievous monkeys. 🐒 Vigilance has been our constant companion since we started exploring parts of our own country, it's par for the course now. 🇿🇦🤷🏻♂️
Hi guys real holiday vibe and great memories for Sonia beehive hair style brought back memories for me .the drive into ramsgate beautiful bananas Crocs and blue bags loved the Western bar with all the photos and stuff the thatched apartments only in SA stunning. Loved tangle Wood reminds me I used to trade in winter at Ramsgate Market again a seaside town on the Kent coast nothing like the colourful Market there ! Great you got to eat at the waffle House again wonderful memories. Bolder Bay was outstanding with the local cops fishing crazy. The cray fish Inn views crashing waves the sea so blue no words can explain it !!! .I feel its a well to do place by the amazing properties all natural vegetation surrounding the houses interesting history tragedy Hill settlers Zulus and San joue. My pal in Reebok told me one of our mutual friends had a fish and chips shop in ramsgate called the Frying Scotsman you are definitely blessed with these amazing places to visit. Thanks for taking me along cheerio till the next one
Beehives and evening gowns, those sound like they were the days to be around! 💃 So you have your own memories of Ramsgate, just a few thousand miles away, but also a market. It shows you the world has actually always been just one big village. 🌍 We're so happy to be taking you along to all these places in KZN we haven't seen in nearly two decades. Thank you, as always, for watching. 🚙😍
Thx for the memories. My parents had their annual holiday in Margate from 1948 to 1960 so I grew up there., Pistol's used to have a beer drinking donkey. The shell shop used to be called Natalies Shell Shop. I knew Margate when the tar road from Durban ended at Port Shepstone.
Wonderful memories those! 😍 It's incredible how many folks used to go on holiday in this area. 🌊🏖️ We love donkeys, but I think the beer-drinking one has moved on long ago! 🐴🍻
The SPCA stopped them and they then had a pig . I dont know what happened to that.@@DustBugsTravel
Lovely but we went to the police camp in the sixties and virtually no town near we drove over a train bridge to get to the camp but i cant remember the reason something got washed away in a storm!
What a treasure trove of memories. I hope you go and see Natalies Shell Shop in Margate. I loved that place 😎 Wow, i noted watching a while later that you did go in! I am so glad to note that it is still open. Methinks its time for another visit 🤩
It's great that you also have many special memories of this area. 😊 I remember us buying a huge shell for Sonia's mom one Christmas while in Margate. We used to love those shell shops too! 😁🐚
I guess you can say about that woman at the new shop is that "She sells seashells by the seashore"
And no truer word would've been spoken! 😁🐚
Acasher crown trees
Great, thanks. 🌳👌🏻
The Waffle House was then the Tea House Of The Blue Lagoon. There was the most beautiful jade vine at the entrance.
So that would explain why Sonia called it the Blue Lagoon Waffle House. 🥞🌊 She combined part of the previous name with the current one. 😁 The jade vine is no more I think, or we missed it. The waffles are still delectably delicious though. 👌🏻
Had many waffles at the Waffle House 😋 the chocolate mousse waffle.😊
Their waffles have always been, and still are, absolutely amazing. I'll have six of the banoffee ones right now! 😁🍌
my brother say strand got waves but gordensbay look some time like dam
The waves at Gordon's Bay (and Strand) Beach are very tame compared to what we saw in this area on the day we visited! 😳🌊
hello, I am pretty sure the old crayfish inn hotel is on your left just before you parked to video across the road. it was beach side. You filmed it from the blue lagoon car park where they sell stuff. it was sold and converted into apartments good memories thank you
Thank you for that info. We didn't know about the hotel, but at least found the Crayfish Inn Restaurant, where I think Sonia remembers going with her folks. It's a few years ago, so the memories have faded somewhat. 😁🦞 Thanks for visiting Ramsgate with us.
I apologise the Crayfish Inn is on the side you videoed the other my father seems to think was the ramsgate hotel near the lagoon.
Did you visit Mac Banana near Port Edward ? Very nice place.
Nope, we had no more time and had to move on. 🚙🍌
The second place of KZN you have visited.
Indeed. 🚙😁
Last time I ate at Pistols (25yrs ago) there was a big black pig that wandered between tables
Now that probably made this super cool place even cooler! 🤠🦏 Love that, I so wish it were still around, but no pigs in sight on the day of our visit.
think u miss cape town roads even gravel roads better
We enjoy each place we travel to and make the most of it while we're there. We'll always return to the good roads in Strand. Gravel will always be our favourite roads of all time to travel on! 🚙😁
As beautiful as Natal is - it also has the highest crime statistics in South Africa - Murder and rape capital of SA - so dam sad
The plant life, river and the ocean all combined make this a very special and beautiful area. 🌳🌊 Regardless of where we travel, we try and focus on the beauty and remain vigilant at all times. Not much more we can do, other than stay at home. 🤷🏻♂️ One has to be super wake-up when one travels in South Africa nowadays. That is indeed very sad. 🇿🇦😢
Spectacular, thank you both once again, Sonja I also had beehive style in my day . Was the hair style for brides way back then😂😂😂
Can we see Sonia on videos as well please, i just want to see her, why u always explore on foot alone and not with your wife?
Sonia isn't keen to be filmed, but I hope to convince her one day. Until then, her voice will just have to do. 🥰 She has had major knee surgeries over the last six years and isn't comfortable walking far and has trouble navigating stairs and uneven surfaces. She is totally happy staying in the car while I go walkabout. 🚙😁