Cape Town-Full Day Tour-Tuesday September 2, 08

Had our full day Cape Tour.  We started the tour by oversleeping.  I mean, what type of establishment doesn't have an alarm clock in the room? or even a clock?

We got ready in about 15 minutes, then rushed down and ate breakfast.

We stopped first at the Kirstenbosch Gardens for about an hour-really pretty.  Then we drove down the Cape Peninsula, taking our time.  We went to Simon's Beach and saw African penguins.  There are a lot of them, right in front of you.  It was really fun to see them in the wild on a beach.  Fred got some great pictures.

Then we went to Table Mountain National Park (different from the top of Table Mountain) and saw some Bunta buck-pretty antelope-type animals. We saw wild ostrich's, but no baboons. Our guide said they can be very aggressive and she had been attacked before so almost glad we didn't see any. Fred climbed up to the top of the lighthouse and took pictures.  Sadly, he did not have anyone take his picture while he was up there, so it's only his word that he climbed all the way.  ;-)

We went to the Cape of Good Hope-the southwestern-most point of Africa.  It used to be believed that this is where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet together (that's no longer believed to be true) but we had our picture taken at the sign.  They had their biggest storm of the last seven years last weekend and another cold front moved in today.  Really windy and about 55 degrees.  Our guide kept saying, "We get 300 sunny days a year."  I'm like, "Can you please stop saying that?"

Then we drove back up the eastern side of the peninsula.  It is pouring rain now.  Just got back in.  We are pretty tired but it's only 6:30 pm.  Afraid to take a nap that lasts 15 hours!

We leave tomorrow to fly back to Johannesburg, then a 4 hour drive to Swaziland for part two of our travels.

Jeri

PS. Fred had to sit in the back seat for the whole day and after the first class stunt, I'm still not done with him yet!