Beaches

We had great weather on on little holiday. The kids even swam a few times.

We went to check out Dwarskersbos one day. What a place and what a beach!

Back in Langebaan...

Neil charging towards the water, as is his wont; defence team in position

A Langebaan rainbow one morning

Observations on energy transformations

We had many opportunities to go for walks, often to playgrounds. Neil likes swings and really really likes slides. Miekie and Pieter like roundabouts most. Marisa and I serve mostly as sources of energy that, once steady states have been reached, compensate for frictional losses in the hinges of swings and aerodynamic drag losses. We also increase the potential energy of Neil at a frequency of about once a minute while at the slide, enabling him to transform this into kinetic energy with the help of the slide. However, we act as lateral stability controls and descent-velocity controls too, expending more of our own energy this way, but still finding it strangely relaxing.

At the "train park" in Langebaan

On part of the "pirate ship" close to Club Mykonos

While providing greater stability, the four chains make movement a little more restrictive

In Hermanus; potential energy just having been transferred to Neil

Neil was somewhere in there, making his way to the slide

Start of our Easter holiday

We set off on our Easter holiday on Sunday 22 March. Having booked rather late, one of the few remaining good options for getting to the Cape turned out to be flying on a new airline called Blue Crane. They fly the main Johannesburg-to-Cape Town route but stop over in Bloemfontein or Kimberley. We stopped over in Kimberley on our way down. The great thing is that we get to fly in one of my favourite aeroplanes, which is a narrow little tube called an Embraer ERJ 145. There were many open seats on our way down and it's quite a nippy plane. The stop in Kimberley is only a few minutes long.

'n Noue buis

Pieter and Miekie sat next to each other one row in front of Marisa, Neil and me. Being younger than two, wriggly Neil is still a bargain on-the-lap passenger.

Displaying our combined three-and-a-bit maxillary central incisors

More detail on the rest of the holiday is to follow in subsequent posts.