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Tag Archives: Cape of Good Hope

Chapman’s Peak Drive.

29-Jun-15

http://bestpensintheworld.com/waterman-expert-fountain-pen-review/ Driving along the Atlantic to Cape Town we had to take Chapman’s Peak Road, an incredible road blasted into the sea-cliffs.  The cliffs are sheer and the road shows the greatest engineering ingenuity, its route climbing up several hundred feet above the sea to exploit the seam between two rock formations, being hacked into a […]

Baboons on the Beach.

28-Jun-15

http://thisisthewilderness.com/portfolio/our-country/jonathan-potter_our-country-bw-9/ The Chacma baboon is unusual in that it has adapted to life on the beach, eating shellfish and often living by the sea.  And here are their tracks!

The Cape of Good Hope.

28-Jun-15

June 24th. I’m not sure what makes some people – like myself – so curious about certain spots on the map. Other people are not so.  On my first trip to Europe I took a ferry from France to Ireland, and Land’s End was visible from the boat, and I just stared and stared at […]

The Cape.

28-Jun-15

June 23rd. We inteded to go today to Kirstenbosch, the famed botanical gardens, but failed to get there. We drove down to the Cape of Good Hope, which we thought would be a quick trip, but it was so spectacular and amazing we spent the whole day there, and then drove directly from there to […]