You’ll have to read further to see what we didn’t expect to see!
Different place for breakfast this morning, at 2300 last night this place was heaving with students from the nearby Uni, this morning there was only us there!
Today’s plan was to drive up the coast north of the city to visit a few beaches and coves. In my mind I had built this trip up to be a coastal drive between small fishing villages; I was wrong on a couple of things, the coastal road had an inability to get near to the coast, and the small coves and fishing villages were obviously a figment of my imagination. Nevertheless, we did pass a nuclear power station.
The first few miles of the drive was spent in fog and low cloud, table mountain often disappeared from sight.
We stopped at a small cafe for coffee and a piece of cake to sustain us, well the carrot cake was probably big enough to feed half of the town, needless to say there would be no lunch today! The cafe was quite funky with a lot of artsy stuff around as well as numerous birds.
After our somewhat oversized snack we diverted off the “coastal” road a few times to get down to the sea. Our first stop was Yzerfontein.
It looked as though they were preparing for some boat racing. The boats were inflatables like a Zodiac, but with a catamaran type hull and large engine. The could certainly move.
A cottage along the sea front
After leaving Yzerfontein we came across a sight we weren’t expecting.
These camels were just grazing at the side of the road. It appears they were introduced from N.Africa many decades ago and continue to live in the Cape area.
Next stop was Langebaan, a breezy seaside town with plenty of large rollers coming off the Atlantic (which by the way was no warmer today than yesterday) . Kite flying, kite surfing and paddle board surfing seemed to be the sport of the day.
We made a few stops for geocaches finding 4; this brought Lyn’s total up to 400 found — well done!
On the way home we spotted these two guys in a field, as usual we are looking to identify them.
Tomorrow we head off to the southernmost point of S. Africa.