These frames are kind of cheesy, but kind of cool. This is from Signal Hill looking at Table Mountain. We had a gorgeous, sunny day! Sunny with a high of 58 F. My idea of perfection.
After a stop at Hout Bay, we headed down to Cape Good Hope, the furthest west-southwestern point in Africa. I really wanted to see this - and it wasn’t a place we could reach ourselves with public transportation. It’s not the southerernmost tip of Africa - that’s about 100 miles southeast of here - but it’s still a confluence of two major ocean currents. Biking through the park was amazing. At first, we just saw ocean and drought landscape.
I was at the back of the line, so I could take pictures of everyone else.
Then we saw baboons! That’s a baboon behind Wendy. They were close.
Then we saw baboons! That’s a baboon behind Wendy. They were close.
A rock Dassie - the closest relative to the elephant, but the size of a marmot.
There was a gaggle of Ostrich. This one ran down the road ahead of us.
There are many signs warning against feeding the baboons. We were very careful!
At Cape Good Hope, we hiked from sea level up to the lighthouse. The hike was actually harder than the bike ride, but incredibly scenic. See the lighthouse way up high? We went there. It was stunning.
Then we headed to Simon’s Town and Boulder’s Beach. And the penguins! There’s a colony of African penguins thriving at Boulder’s Beach. Boardwalks allowed us to walk through their colony. The pictures don’t convey the braying sound coming from the bushes when we arrived - they were loud. Many pairs had one or two babies, which were born in March. Some were as big as their parents - it was funny to see the parents try to cover them. I thought the colony would be smelly, but not so much. They were delightful - we could have watched them for hours.
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