What a view!

Flew to Port Elizabeth today. So nice to fly short distance. I have had enough of long haul for a while. I was quite taken aback to find that our plane was a 50-seater, even more so by the two propellers where the jet engines should have been! We climbed the five steps from the apron into the plane and turned right. The steward seemed slightly miffed at my concern over the propellers. The usual logjam occurred while passengers fumbled their laptops into overhead lockers and it took a while to reach row 8. This might have been acceptable but for the fact that there were only 10 passengers.
The flight was, of course,  perfectly safe and extremely comfortable. I was free to engage in seat-hopping to take maximum advantage of the view as we hugged our spectacular coastline, identifying each beach and inlet from years of holidays up the Garden Route. There is something fascinating about an aerial view - the convolutions of the broad rivers winding to the sea from the hinterland, the crinkly hills and vast stretches of white sandy beach lapped by the Indian Ocean, farmhouses dotted on hilltops surrounded by squares of trees.
The small plane flew at 29 000 feet, allowing for a detailed observation, but I would have appreciated a cleaner window for clarity. Ah well, you can't have it all!