Sue's Travels: Capetown Arrival

18 July 2016

My first day on tour and I overslept. It was not really my fault in that I had requested a 6:00 am wake-up call which I didn’t get. I jumped into my clothes and headed down to the lobby where I met the group. I was surprised that there are only 11 people on the tour.

Our first stop was the cable car up to Table Mountain. The views were lovely. I looked thru the curio shop and I have an idea on what I can buy for my grandchildren. After heading down, I stopped and bought coffee and a muffin. Since we immediately got on the bus, I managed to spill my coffee. I had to borrow 100 Rand from our tour leader.

Tram lines up to Table Mountain

Looking down from Table Mountain

From Top of Table Mountain

Lion's Head

On the Road

Me with Lion's Head in the background

Next we drove along Chapman’s Peak Drive. It was a very narrow windy road that had been closed at one point because of rock slides. Again the views were magnificent. Our next stop was in Simon’s Town, which has a major naval base, but our stop was to see the African Penguins, which are smaller than those I saw in the AntiArtic.

Scenery off Chapman's Drive

Looking out to sea

One of the Bays along the coast

Off Chapman's Head Drive

Me again

Clouds on the mountains

Lovely beach

Better view of the beach

Lunch was in a restaurant called the Black Marlon where we were mostly served fish. The lunch was supposed to be lime fish, calimara and prawns. I requested only the lime fish which was very good.

African Penguins

Penguins resting

Penguin sampling vegetation

two penguins

Penguins on the beach

Note juvenile fluff still on penguin

Larger Penguin camp

Baby Penguins still completely covered by fluff

Looking out to sea

Our next stop was at Cape Point where we saw the light houses whose purpose was to prevent ships from crashing on the rocks. We also went to Cape of Good Hope. Frankly I am not sure which we did first, but the views were great and I enjoyed very much.