Day 7 : Thursday 27th November

Brie at Jorn's

Favourite penguin photo from Boulders Beach - so cute Lighthouse at Cape Point

The rental!

Camps Bay

Camps Bay

The top of the lighthouse Driving back around the other coast - twelve apostles

Views of Cape Town from the day

The southern most tip of Africa!

Cape

Mother Baboon

Baby Baboons!

Cape Reserve

Drive around the coast to the Cape Boulders Beach

Leaving Muzenberg - driving around the coast

Muzenberg

Whales, Penguins, Baboons …….. Thank goodness for the early night last night because we started our day at 7am to head off on a sightseeing day around the cape and man was it awesome! We drove down one side of the cape point – to the southern most tip of Africa, then drove up the other side, returning back at 6.30pm. We took a quick shower and had a real South African Brie with Jorn and Tam at their house in Thornton. We started at Muzenberg, which had all these beautiful colored sheds on the beach as changing rooms. We drove down the coast to Simon’s Town – a naval village and went to Boulders Beach. Boulders Beach has a penguin colony (African penguin). We walked around a board walk to see the penguins on the beach and nesting in the sand. Also at boulders beach there is an area where you can swim, and there where penguins there also, you could walk up to them (they would move away if you got too close) but you could stand about 1 foot away. We continued around the coast to the Cape of Good Hope Reserve, to take us to the point. There are baboons in the reserve, and as we where driving along a big mother baboon was sitting in a bush on the side of the road and her babies e4hre running all over the road, climbing on the car in front and playing/chewing their Arial! It was absolutely amazing! We drove to Cape Point and took a little tram thing (Funiclar) up to the light house then drove around to the Cape to of Good Hope and where photographed at the southern most tip of Africa! This is also where the two oceans meet, the Atlantic and the Indian. We continued up the other side of the point, out of the park and up around the coast. We stopped in Nordhoek and had lunch in a lovely garden café with a massive pig and lots of dogs running around. We wanted to take a scenic drive call Chapman’s Peak Drive, around to Hout Bay, but it was closed so we headed back onto the highway and back to the coast, a lengthy diversion! We stopped at Hout Bay, took some photos then headed around the coast to Camps Bay. On the way I spotted 2 Wales off the coast and we pulled over and watched them leaping out of the water then off into the horizon – so beautiful to see them from the coast, leaping and swimming. It really made my day. It was getting towards sunset by this stage so back to the hotel and off to the Brie. Again it was beautifully sunny and 25 – 28 degrees.