Got up early so C could go to school for a few hours with Jenna. After we picked her up again, we drove via Muizenburg to the peninsula and back again.
Then we headed out to the peninsula.
In the Cape Peninsula Nature Reserve (whatever the name is...)
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| Today we're driving the green route to the Cape of Good Hope |
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| The road into Vergelegen |
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| Turns out they only open at 9 and we were there just after 8am, so we postponed the visit til tomorrow. You'll see more pics then. |
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| Looks like the wind is starting to pick up... |
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| Drove up Helderberg College road to pick C up. |
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| Tis the season for flowering gums. This road looks pretty much the same as it did 25 years ago! |
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| Admin building and classrooms |
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| Our old high school |
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| A noisy place in the old days - which is probably why they moved the school out of there, haha. |
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| Common hangout during breaks |
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| My childhood house - prune plum tree on the right |
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| This used to be a stable and paddock |
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| The farm |
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| Silos |
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| Barn |
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| Dairy farm at one time |
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| The road goes past Kayelitsha - the shanty town outside of Cape Town |
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| Notice the cement "porta"-potties. I think it's prolly mostly because of the gale force winds in the area. Other than that I don't know why anyone would want to steal them! |
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| It's a mega city! |
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| But notice they all have electricity! |
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| Oh! It's False Bay! |
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| Can the road get any closer to the beach?! |
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| Muizenburg |
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| Changing rooms |
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| The train line goes right past the beach |
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| St. James beach with swimming pool |
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| Turn around and you see this |
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| Well, wait long enough and you'll get a train! |
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| Another little town |
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| Fishhoek |
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| Simon's Town (Naval base) |
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| Simon's Town street |
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| What are these, you ask? Funny you should ask. It's quite obvious they're penguin nests. |
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| Another penguin colony at Boulders |
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| Since we came last time, we now have to pay bookoos to go down to the beach to be with the penguins... We didn't. |
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| You can tell why the beach is called Boulders... |
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| I would hate to have to park my car here. There's a deep drop to the sea if you overshoot that little wall! |
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| You can see a speed boat speeding towards the boulders. Obviously he knows where the deep channel is because he just sped right through there at top throttle. |
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| Oh, Uncle Bob, is that you? |
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| Better run! |
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| Ostrich |
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| Before walking up the long, steep hillside in the blazing sun |
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| Looking back from whence... |
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| Vygie (pronounced "Fay-ghee") |
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| At the lighthouse mentioned above |
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| Looking back along the route we've just come along the peninsula. |
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| Looking to the end of the point |
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| We were just at that lighthouse. One can walk further to the point which is what we did. |
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| The farthest we could go |
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| This is for the little lighthouse down below us. |
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| Do you think it was windy? |
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| At least the hair isn't straight out like an unfurled flag!! |
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| To give some perspective, there's a lobster boat down below. |
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| Toilets must be underground |
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| Going back along the other side of the peninsula. This is approaching Kommetjie. See the whale? |
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| You gave up? Here it is. |
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| The Kommetjie lighthouse |
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| Long Beach at Noordhoek. Famous for horse riders. |
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| Looking at Hout Bay |
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| This is Chapman's Peak drive |
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| There's a 'seal island' somewhere around here |
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| How's this for a drive-by shooting? |
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| Also known, or used to be known, as The Republic of Hout Bay (tongue in cheek). |
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| We had lunch/supper overlooking this scene |
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| Yummy vegetarian |
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| The restaurant |
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| I didn't ask what the celebration was - maybe there doesn't have to be one, haha. |
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| Check out my grass beard |
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| Heading towards Constantia Nek |
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| The first restaurant I ever went to - age 12! |
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| Climbing the lion at Rhodes Memorial |
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| I pointed the lions paw right next to where I used to live (red roofed to the right). The church is the Mowbray church I used to go to. |
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| 'Nobody' here when we came...Up the hill is Devil's Peak |
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| Alma Mater |
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| After a wrong turn, we landed up downtown Cape Town. But no worries - did a U-wie and went back. |
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| The Cape Doctor is visiting and has laid his tablecloth. |
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| These are solar water geyser heaters on top of the roofs. |
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| Helder means "clear" but sometimes even Helderberg can be covered. It looks like a nuclear mushroom cloud here. |
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