Not having much luck with the mobile Internet thing here in the tree (EDGE is as good as it gets), so this is going to be shorter than I hoped and with no photos.

After the snow on Monday going through the Transkei mountains, we slept over at the Blue Marlin Hotel in Scottbugh. A hotel with a true Grand Old Lady charm to it, and most excellent service.

We left Scottbugh early-to-mid morning on Tuesday, since it was nice wide national road all the way to Mooi River. But the weather had different ideas. At Howick, which is almost smelling distance from Mooi River we came to a complete stop, the N3 between Durban and Johannesburg was closed at Mooi River. The provincial traffic official we spoke to said they were trying to get the snow cleared off the highway but it could still take many hours.

Being of a stubborn persuasion, we took a look at the map and came up with a plan. We figured it would only be the highway and the alternative route that were closed to avoid major truck accidents, so we looked for a different alternative route. The one we decided on was via Greytown to Mooi River, which was quite a long detour.

As it turned out, we had very little snow on that route and only the wheels of the car only went through snow for the first time when we turned in the gate at our final destination.

So the journey took about 24 hours longer than planned, but here we are in our tree house at last and having a wonderful time.

So day one of travel to our honeymoon destination was to Gonubie, the village where I lived from the ages of 13 to 20. It was such an incredible feeling being back there after so many years and being able to show my darling wife where I went to school and where I lived.

This morning, due to a slight allergic reaction, she also got to meet the family doctor we had when I was growing up, who promptly gave her two injections (!) and some tablets.

Traveling through the Transkei region, we got a lovely surprise.... snow! One of the reasons we chose our honeymoon destination was in the hope of seeing some snow because she had never seen snow before. So we got to see lots of snow, and then some more snow, and then for a change a bit more snow. The snow turned into rain less than 100 km from Port Shepstone, by that time we were running quite late so we decided to stop over somewhere and make the final trip to Mooi Rivier in the morning.

So here we are in Scotborough for the night. Tomorrow on to the final destination, where I'm told it is snowing quite a bit as well.

Pretty awesome lunar eclipse just now, with pretty good weather for viewing here in Port Elizabeth too.

I took these shots with relatively basic equipment. Most frustratingly, with equipment that only has auto-focus. Of a total of 49 shots of the event, these are the five best. Some little technical details about the photos:

First shot - Taken at 20:35, 1/125s exposure, free-hand

Second shot - Taken at 21:11, 1/80s exposure, free-hand

Third shot - Taken at 21:15, 1/6s exposure, free-hand

Fourth shot - Taken at 21:25, 1/2s exposure, mini tripod on a table

Fifth shot - Taken at 21:32, 1/2s exposure, mini tripod on a table

So I've said before that I don't trust Yahoo and Flickr any more, well now it's gotten to the point where I'm trying to delete my Flickr account.

Recently, I changed the way I log in to Flickr from my Yahoo account to my Google account. Doing that was already a bit of a hassle, because the documentation Flickr has on how to do it is very slightly wrong, to the point of making it as difficult as possible without seeming to. Anyway... I finally managed to get it working so I could log in to my Flickr profile with my Google account.

This morning I wanted to see what my Flickr contacts have been up to, so I open the Flickr home page. Oops, logged out. No problem, I click on the Log In link, then on the Google button, enter my Google account details and click the button. Huh? An error message, not much detail, just something along the lines of "there is a problem, log in again with the same or a different account". So I try again with my Google account, same error. I try with my Yahoo account, it wants to create a new Flickr account.

So that's it. I've sent a "Help by Email" request to Flickr telling them to make my photos available to me to download in the resolution I uploaded them at and then delete my Flickr and Yahoo accounts. Most likely, they are going to tell me to get stuffed, since I never had a Pro account.

The upshot? I'll keep trying to delete my Flickr account, as well as my Yahoo account. If you are a contact of mine on Flickr, there's a good chance you are also a Facebook or Google contact (probably both), so I'm not going to miss Flickr much. Expect to see more of my photos hosted on services like Picasa Web Albums, Dropbox or my hosted web sites instead of Flickr. Also expect my Flickr hosted photos to go missing some time very soon.

An interesting tweet just came past in my timeline. I won't post complete details about the actual tweet (for obvious reasons), but essentially it was a tweet (with a couple of people @ mentioned) asking about when the person who posted could get together with "pirate buddies" to swap stuff.

Most people agree, I'm not a huge Twitter user. I mostly just keep one eye on my timeline as "background noise" while concentrating on other stuff... so here's something interesting.

How did I end up with these numbers? They should all be at least an order of magnitude smaller (apart from the number of people I follow, which should probably be bigger):

I follow 148 people
For some reason, 111 people follow me!
I'm in 15 lists, how did that happen? (And... ummm... "coolgeeks" and "hot-twitter-boys-sa"... I'm flattered)
I've generated over 2100 tweets! Yikes!