Cape Peninsula
Baboons tried to steal our lunch!
09.01.2011 - 13.02.2011
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We arrived in Hout Bay on Sunday morning and have spent a couple of days settling into our new surroundings. Hout Bay is a beautiful working fishing harbour surrounded by mountains on all sides. The hostel where we're staying is within walking distance of the beach, and the area feels very safe so we will be quite happy walking around Hout Bay and up into the township where we'll be working.
Today, Katherine (who runs Ikhaya le themba) and her family took us out for the day to Cape Point. We drove along Chapman's Peak Drive, a spectacular road clinging to the side of the cliffs on the coast. The scenery was breathtaking - wild surf, long white sandy beaches and sunshine!
Once in the National Park, we stopped for a picnic lunch but were quickly interrupted by a troop of baboons who were keen to get their hands on our cheese sandwiches. Some other picnickers reacted by shouting and throwing sticks at them, but we played it a bit more cool and waited for the baboon guard to come over and shoo them away. We gave him a bit of watermelon and he sat down a few metres away and kept an eye on us as we resumed our lunch. We could see the baboons in the distance, running along the beach and going right down to the water's edge!
After lunch, we drove down to the Cape of Good Hope - the most southwestern tip of the African continent - passing a few wild ostriches on the way. It was extremely windy, and we had a very bracing walk up to the top of the headland, but what a view!
We meandered home along the Eastern side of the peninsula, driving through several towns that we're planning to go back and have a closer look at, but today was a great start to our trip.
Posted by Tinktravel 11.01.2011 07:11 Archived in South Africa
Hi guys. Glad you have settled down well and enjoying the Cape Peninsula. There are still more surprises in store like Kirstenbosch, Table Mountain, Camps Bay etc. Wish I was there to enjoy it with you. How is the temperatures? Here it is just London grey :-( and 4C.
20.01.2011 by Merril