Today was just one of those days! It started off OK with breakfast, the hotel has an odd way of doing breakfast; they have teamed up with three local restaurants and they give you a 100 Rand ($9 Cdn ~$7 US) voucher per person, believe me that is plenty for a full breakfast and coffee over here!
After a good breakfast we headed off to Table Mountain as their web site said the weather and visibility was good, and the line up was only 5 minutes. Well 2 out of three was not good enough, when we got there 30 minutes later the line up for the cable car was in excess of 2 hours (I suspect the web site still said 5 minutes). We thought about waiting, but the temperature was climbing, the line was lengthening and as we had done the trip before we decided not to wait. Not a bitter disappointment, but it would have been nice to go again.
View of Table mountain and Cape Town from the base of the cable car:
Upper Cable Car Station
Cape Town
We headed off in the car to go to Lionshead, this is a mountain close by Table Mountain that climbs too 2195 ft, Table Mountain climbs to 3563 ft.
Lionshead
Moslim Mausoleum on Lionshead
From here we headed off to some beaches on the Atlantic coast, the plan being to see Clifton Beach, Llandudno Beach and Camps Bay. Well, it’s not the weekend, it’s not even summer but the places were mobbed, it was impossible to park anywhere with in walking distance at Clifton and Llandudno beaches so we had to make do with long distance views instead.
Clifton Beach
We headed back to Camps Bay hoping to get parked there, which we did.
Below is a view along the way.
And some views of Camps Bay
Looking Back at the top Station on Table Mountain
We spent some time on the rocks watching the surfers. We paddled in the Atlantic but it was FREEZING!!!
We headed back to the hotel via a Quilt / Hobby store, but true to form for the day, after spending 45 minutes in traffic jams we finally got to the store only to find it was in the process of being demolished!! Back to the hotel we went.
At the hotel we found a very apologetic note from management advising us that the the city was shutting off the water from 20:00 tonight until 10:00 tomorrow, there could be some very smelly people in Cape Town tomorrow morning.
The final bummer for the day came in the form of a text message from Avis saying that 3 days after I returned the car they found a problem with one of the tyres, and that they would bill me accordingly!!! I think not, there will be a battle over this.
On the plus side we got a few geocaches, Lyn has now found 399. We also had a great dinner just down the road from the hotel, maybe things will improve tomorrow?
Almost forgot, today’s Mystery Flower, any takers?
