The day started with a 9.00am pick-up and finished at 10:45pm after a superb meal in Camps Bay and I almost can’t believe the amount we crammed in but I do know we are all absolutely knackered!!
We were collected promptly for our trip to Cape Point this morning and made our way to our first stop, Hout Bay Harbour, where we caught a boat to have a trip out to Seal Island. We were slightly thankful it was only a 45 minute trip as the seas were very rough and we all felt a little queasy!! Having said that Seal Island was quite a sight with a large colony of seals on rocky outcrops in very rough sea.
We then drove on round the coastal route towards Cape Point which really reminded us of driving the Pacific Coast Highway in California as it was a very windy road with incredible sea views!
Our next stop was close to Cape Point at a working Ostrich Farm. Whilst it was really beautiful and home to 200 ostrich’s which was amazing, the girls were more impressed that they had a tiny Dachsund puppy they they could cuddle!!
We then moved into the Cape Point National Park which was absolutely incredible. We took the funicular railway up to Cape Point Lighthouse which was largely redundant as they built it too high for ships to see!! They subsequently built another lighthouse much lower which is in everyday use. There were baboons wandering about just looking for trouble but thankfully they left us in peace! We had a take-out lunch at the restaurant but like everything this week, service was limited by the strikes and the food took forever to arrive!
We ate our lunch back on the bus to the Cape of Good Hope, the south-western most point of Africa. It was originally called the Cape of Storms but the Portuguese were worried that sailors would not want to travel there so they changed the name so people wouldn’t be aware of the danger it posed. It is a wild place and very clear to see why over 800 ships were wrecked on the way around the Cape!!
We left Cape Point and headed back to Boulders Bay to see the penguins via Simons Town where we were held up by a whole colony of Baboons blocking the road! Seeing the African penguins on Boulders beach was quite something!
Our trip culminated in a visit to Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens before we were dropped off safely back home in Camp’s Bay as the sun set just after 6pm. We had an excellent meal at Zenzero on the Camps Bay strip before retiring to bed exhausted! Tomorrow we are off to Franschhoek and the next leg of our journey!
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