Sunday

Today we headed out to Cape Point with our G adventure tour guide Gail.  We toured the East Indian company garden and one of the presidents residences.

We stopped at the court house and outside was a bench at said “ whites only”. It was there to remind people of the past  she told us stories of when people had or carry ID passport which allowed them to be in specific paces of the city at certain times of the day. If you were outside that window you were arrested and sometimes disappeared forever. The ID passports indicated if you were white, black, or coloured.  Coloured people are people of mixed race.

 We then toured an area called bo-kaap . This was the area the Muslim people lived and the houses were multi coloured with a wide range of vibrant colours.  We stopped at a corner convenience store and purchased cold water, spices, snacks, but unfortunately the samosas were sold out.

We then traveled for about an hour to reach Cape Point, the southern most tip of Africa. Gail told us to keep our eyes peeled for baboons, ostrich and large antelope. Joyce and I were the Queen spotters and we saw them all. The baboons are mischievous creatures which cause all kinds of trouble. They are very intelligent and attempt to enter vehicles, break off car antennas and steal food and hand bags. We were told to keep the windows closed and only eat indoors and hang onto your bags.

Joyce was the first to spot the antelope, then the ostrich and on our way out of the Cape of Good Hope we watched a group of about 8 Baboons running down the hill to the kite surfers cars to see what they could find.

We took the cable car up to the lighthouse to the view point and experienced wind gusts stronger than downtown Lethbridge during a Chinook. The guy in front of me was Bills size and he moved 4 feet to the left in a blink of the eye. I grabbed the railing and hung on until we made it to the summit. AMAZING EXPERIENCE!

 We were rushed for time so headed straight down to the bus as the next stop was Boulders beach and our second viewing of the penguins. There were about double the amount of penguins compared to the first day. We were all thankful we spent as much time as we did on our first day as it was 38 degrees and very rushed today.

We had to que up to get our photo as the large tour buses were rolling in.

Bill wasn't feeling well today but was a trooper and made it through but decided to go to bed early and skip dinner because we had a full day booked with Cape Fusion Tours and Ryan on Monday.

Joyce, Brian and I had an amazing fresh fish tapas meal and called it a night. 38 degrees is very hot in the city!