The Beautiful Cape

When was it in school that we learned about the Cape of Good Hope?Yesterday we went there and also to Cape Point, the most southern tip of the African continent.We were able to see an ostrich family up close, Mom, Dad and five chicks. That was after a tribe of baboons tried to get into our vehicles. You don't dare have the windows down but it's hard to get photos with them up.

We're in Sea Point, part of Cape Town and walking distance from the beaches which are gorgeous! There are mountains behind us, Table Mountain and Lion's Head. We had planned to hike up Table Mt. but the weather today was too windy with fog on the mountain. It is about 3 hours straight up so I may go in the cable car.For you plant lovers, we spent the morning in the National Botanical Gardens, Kirstenbosch. There are just indigineous plants there and many only can be found here on the cape.There were wild geraniums and Cape Everlastings and entire sections of Proteas.

The sounds of Africa have to be the birds, perhaps the turtle doves which coo in all the places we've been or the cuckoos who sound like a dozen cuckoo clocks gone wild.Birds everywhere!
The people are so friendly and helpful and our lodge here looks like a Greek villa with wonderful breakfasts.I even got a pair of contact lens FREE. Somehow I lost one the first day I was here.

I will try to add more at the end of the week.