Today is our last day in Cape Town on this leg of our trip.
On Monday, we went out to Robben Island, where the political prisoners (i.e. Mandela, etc.) were held. It was a 45min ferry out ride in very choppy waters. Even choppier on the way back. It was a very neat place though, especially because the tour was conducted by a former prisoner who had spent 7 years incarcerated there.
After that tour we went to the Aquarium on the V&A Waterfront, which was one of the best laid out aquariums I’d seen (better than Vancouver, Shediac and Lisa also said it was better than Eilat). One ocould even dive with their predator fish (cage-less), provided one was certified. Oh well.
Yesterday we drove down to the Cape of Good Hope. A beautiful nature reserve with good trails and we had to drive through a number of pretty towns on False Bay to get there. It was an incredible day.
Today, our last day before flying to Jo’burg, is gorgeous, so we’re going to head up Table Mountain to do some hiking and this afternoon, depending on how we feel, we’ll either head back out to Stellenbosch for more vineyards, or relax on the beach.
It may be tougher to post once we’re in Jo’burg and on safari (unless my phone works out there), so this may be our last post for a few days, indeed, it may be the last before we return home.
If that’s the case, we’ll speak to you all in just under a week.
In the meantime, some more photos from our past couple of days:
Sunset the other day. We could have an incredible, and different sunset pic every day!
Us at the Boulder Beach Penguin Colony
Lisa and I overlooking the Cape of Good Hope (that point in the distance)
After we’d driven down to the actual Cape itself, Lisa at the sign. The most South-Western point of Africa. (The actual most southern point, where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet is a few hundred kilometers away at Cape Agulhas. But here is where the winds are rougher, the sailors hundreds of years ago had difficulty and where the flora and fauna indigenous to the Atlantic and Indian Ocean cliamtes collide.)
