After breakfast we headed off to find the most Southern point in Africa. Many people think this is at the Cape of Good Hope, but it is actually further east along the coast at Cape Agulhas.
As it was a reasonably long journey we headed out of town on the highway with the intent on returning via the back roads if time permitted. We drove through a mountain pass about 1000ft above sea level into a fertile valley area where the was plenty of wheat, apples and grapes growing.
This fertile area carried on for a long time, we then left the freeway and headed south down to Cape Agulhas. We again stopped for coffee, but NO cake this time! We stopped a few times on the way for geocaches as I needed 5 more to reach 500. I managed to work it out so that the 500th find would be at the southernmost point of the continent.
Once we reached Cape Agulhas it was a bit of a mess as they are building a new road and building at the site. The road is being built of interlock paving, there were about six guys laying a gazillion interlock stones by hand, not a machine in sight!
When it came to finding the magic cache we thought a disaster had befallen us, we couldn’t find the cache! Luckily there was a log entry on the site that suggested if we looked from a slightly different direction then all would be revealed….. it was!
We planned a rout back across country via Hermanus which is a good whale watching area, on the way we passed the elusive ostrich.
The coastline at Hermanus:
This is the closest we got to seeing a whale:
