Cape of Good Hope

Weekend!

up the coast from the cape

I had my last counseling session till 12:30 today, after that Sebastian and I started on our weekend trip around the Cape Peninsula. Sebastian collected the car in the morning to go surfing again :)

Dassy

We drove via Camps Bay, Hout Bay and Kommetjie down to Cape Point National Park. On the way we had to stop for photos several times, because the route down the coast was so beautiful. Like my guidebook said: one of the most beautiful scenic costal drives in the world! Seriously beautiful. We also stopped at the Cape Point Ostrich Farm. Pretty much like any other farm, but with ostriches. I never understood ostriches as animals. Here in this natural environment they make sense: they look exactly like the bushed growing here and flying wouldn't work properly anyway with the wind blowing like this.
We arrived at Cape Point National Park at 4 something pm. The facilities (meaning restaurants, shops and the cable way up to Cape Point) close at 5 pm, luckily for us the park closed at 6:51pm (sunset). Cape Point wasn't our main focus anyway - we drove straight down to Cape of Good Hope! A wonderful place! Very windy, beautiful stones and the most south-western point of the African country - whatever that means.

Cape of Good Hope

There was a little hiking trail up the stoney coast and we could see Cape Point from there. And we saw a lot of tiny little wonderful dassies.
We drove over there afterwards. On our way we actually saw baboons! Like really live and in color (actually not that red the bud). I will honor that in a special post.

Cape Point

Our destination for tonight was Simon's Town, home of the South African penguins. We arrived there with the last light. Going for dinner at the beach we already saw the first penguins! They are so cute! We will get up early tomorrow to spot them in sunlight.