Nelson Mandela - "was a hell of a fella"
4 Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Red Bus ride around Cape Town
Great views at Campers Bay
"Boom"
Great views to Cape Point
Boulders Beach - African penguins
African penguins
A baboon with baby
Cape Point
A rainbow into the ocean
Great views to the most southwestern point of Africa
Entering the Park
Wednesday, June 24th
We had booked a shark cage dive for today - but due to the weather, we were notified early via email that the tour had been cancelled. We had expected this from the forecast and had some backup plans.
Today turned out great - even with the early rain - as the sun actually came out in the middle part of the day. We went over to the main tourist office around 9am when it opened. We booked a seat on the red city tour bus and then booked an afternoon tour to Cape Point/Cape of Good Hope.
We jumped on the red bus - which circled the city - giving us a better perspective of the layout. The main city centre was about 2 miles from our apartment. We went up to the cable car at the base of Table Mountain. Table Mountain is the iconic mountain overlooking Cape Town - flat on top - and portraying a chair with the accompanying mountain range. The bus went by some of the beach areas in town. We hopped off at Campers Bay and were able to take some great panoramic photos of the area and the 12 Apostles mountain range.
We completed a 3-hr loop of the city - just in time to catch a pizza for lunch and meet up with our afternoon tour. We drove out to Cape Point/Cape of Good Hope in a minivan with Greg, Liam, and I being the only participants on the tour. Really impressive sites. We stopped by Boulders Beach - a location we were able to see some African penguins - the only species native to Africa (I didn't even realize penguins existed on this continent)
We continued on to Cape Point - the most southwestern point in Africa. We walked up the hill to a huge lighthouse and quickly ran/walked out to the very tip of Cape Point. The tour did not actually go out to the Cape of Good Hope - but we were able to get some good pictures from our location.
The return drive to Cape Town was about 1.5 hours. We had dinner at a sports pub where we caught some rugby action. South Africa is one of the best rugby nations in the world - winning the World Cup in 1995 and 2007. We ran into 2 girls (Sofia and Maria) from our marathon/safari trip as we walked around the shops after dinner. We had moved our cage dive to Thursday - but if it were to be cancelled - we were going to meet up with the girls for a hike up Table Mountain on Thursday.
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