In last month I did have a holiday a week away at the coast, but I decided to leave my computer at home and just read, some quiet time with my God, some inspirational reading, some deep contemplation and self analysis and I was good to go................ The girls decided they wanted to do everything different so we could not go to any place we had been before, so we found a whole load of new places and they wanted to do something extreme, either jumping off the highest bridge in South Africa or doing a 4 hour bush, beach and night horse ride, we voted ..........and the horse ride won. At the time I thought it was a good idea, but in hindsight at least the bridge jumping would have been over in 5 minutes ...........
So off we went, when I saw the horses I didn't want the third horse from the right, its foot was raised and it looked ready to go............................ haha its name was Jet, and here I am on Jet
we took a while to get to know one another, but he really was quite a sweetie, you just had to keep him on a very........ short rein..........
Some of the people had never been on horses before, luckily we have horses so we were all quite confident, we had an hour walkthrough the bush, to get to the beach, I was nearly decapitated a few times by low hanging branches and I forgot when I bent forward, to miss a branch, to put my legs forward instead they automatically go backwards, and after nearly do a somersault over the horse head........ I quickly learnt that lesson.
In order to get to the beach we had to cross a main road, no problem except what is it about people who think they need to hoot when they see a horse do they not know that horses SPOOK and get frights, more than a few scary moments here............ I wondered what I would look like screaming on a runaway horse............ not a pretty sight I am sure.
The beach was fantastic, to ride a horse along the beach, with the waves at your feet, is to say the least absolutely unbelievable until you have tried it you cannot describe it........ awesome, man and beast what more could you ask for, the sunset was one of the most amazing I have seen and so much more special because of the horse.
We then took a slow ride home, luckily it was full moon, I don't think I would have liked doing that ride in the dark, when we went through the bush, there was a river on the one side, one wrong move and you would have been swimming ............ and of course the horses were very eager to get home, so we kept our distance from one another.......... far away from one another...........
4 hours on a horse, well I can tell you I was sore in places which humans just shouldn't have places, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood would have taken off their hats to me....... the Lone Ranger would have given me Tonto, he would have been so proud........ . this is life at its best..............................
