The weather seems to be slowly declining, dull and overcast this morning with the threat of rain. Cape Town is in desperate need of rain, the reservoirs are only at 25% of their normal level and getting lower. Water rationing is in force and shower times restricted to 1 (one) minute!
After breakfast we headed south towards the naval base of Simon’s Town which served as our marker for penguin country which is just south of there.
This area is home to the African Penguin, whose numbers have been decreasing rapidly over the last 100 years due mainly to pollution destroying their food chain.
I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking.
Below are a couple of pictures of Mum and two chicks.
The guy above is in the process of molting, this happens once a year and replaces all of the old feathers for new ones with better insulation. During this period, which lasts 21 days the penguins can’t enter the water so they go on an eating binge beforehand to store up their energy.
While wandering around the area we came across a colony of Rock Dassies and their young. Believe it or not these guys are related to the elephant family.
Youngsters
Mum feeding Babies.
After a coffee stop (again without Carrot Cake!), we headed back around the coast to Stellenbosch.
As we approached Stellenbosch we entered a huge area if vineyards, this is prime African wine country. 
Stellenbosch is an old Dutch settlement where their architecture can still be seen.
It’s hard to explain, but the face in the picture above looked like a piece if rusted iron sculpture superimposed on a map of Africa. I couldn’t work out what it was meant to represent. As soon as I saw it through the viewfinder the face jumped out as clear as anything. Weird, but effective!
Lunch Spot
Although we had a couple of sprinkles of rain it was not enough to affect us, and certainly not enough to help with the drought.
Tomorrow our flight leaves at 21:20, so we are able to leave our bags at the hotel and we’ll get a taxi to the waterfront and catch the ferry across to Robbens Island. Depending on what time we get to the airport, and the state of their WiFi there may or may not be a blog tomorrow. I don’t intend to do a blog when we are in England as there will be nothing “touristy” going on. I will do a final entry in the next few days covering Robbens Island and maybe even a survey!