25.12.07
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The Cape of Good Hope – 10/12/07
Damn! Dodgy weather on the hill today so no climb of the table for us. Instead we decided to head south to your actual cape. It’s more of a drive than I expected but a pleasant one.
The drive took us through a few small outposts including, in order, Llandudno, Penzance and Scarborough. We stopped in Hout Bay for a bit and went to visit Bird World (see photos). It was a nice enough place but more than a little shabby. With lots of birds comes lots of poo. And lots of mice and rats; K not happy. But there were monkeys and birds. In the squirrel monkey bit K got sat on. I got shat on. Ho hum.
After the birds we headed on to the sea front at Hout Bay and a place called Mariner’s Wharf. A fish and chip shop was there and it did very nice takeaways. Nyum.
Driving further (and having to pay tolls to do so) we ended up at the cape; oh yes and on the way I saw the best road sign ever although my camera was not to hand “Robot ahead 250m”.
At the cape itself there were loads of signs warning re baboons. The family had pre-warned us about baboons there as well. As it happened we saw a grand total of none whatsoever. Absolutely zilch.
The weather was nice, the views were gorgeous and there was some other wildlife around. K and Ruth made it down on the beach, apparently the water was bloody freezing; I didn’t fancy the walk down and up so stayed at the top. Got some more decent pics though.
That was about it for the day. A travelly see-ey sort of effort.