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Down the Garden Path
... and wondering how it would survive the next few weeks. We then moved onto Hermanus hopeful to spot some late season straggling whales. We hot trotted it straight down to the harbour in search of the infamous whale crier, a dude with a giant horn which he blows every time a big fish is spotted. We got lucky! The southern righties were in town and in a particularity playful mood. The gorgeous cliff ...
Baboons, Penguins, Dassies and Whales..oh my!
... s Bay....to my extreme delight...BABOONS! They were on the wall by the road's edge...then playing in the middle of the road...yes, the middle of the road. There were full grown adult Baboons, teenagers and Baboon mom's with babies. I was thrilled. We saw signs for Baboons on the road to Cape Point yesterday, but not a single Baboon. Kristin kept telling me to "be patient" and that I'd see tons of Baboons at some point. Well, ...
I think we need a bigger boat!
... he didn’t want to get sued if I lost my fingers. Of course, Frank then had to tell him I was a lawyer…grrr! But I digress!
I only went in once because my picture taking opportunities were much better from the deck over the cabin than they were from the water. Frank took two turns in the cage and at one point while he was in there, the cage was surrounded by three sharks. One below, one behind, and one in front. Also while he ...
Week Three
... Cape Agulhas, the most southerly point in Africa, where we saw where the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean meet (this reminded us very much of our visit to the most northerly tip of the north island of New Zealand several years ago, where we saw the meeting of the Pacific and the Tasmanian Sea.) We took a number of pictures of the rolling turquoise sea and the light house built in the early 1800’s.
Also on this day trip we visited ...
Jóreménység foka és Hermanus
... csücskét, rajta a sziklákkal, amelyekre mi fel is másztunk.
Ráadásul kiokosodtam „fokügyben", ugyanis a félsziget legdélibb részén 2 kiszögellés is van: a valamicskét délebbre nyúló Jóreménység foka (Cape of Good Hope; az afrikaansul tanulóknak: Kaap die Goeie Hoop) és a pár kilométerrel arrébb lévő, jóval magasabb Cape Point, ahol a világítótorony van. És hogy még bonyolultabb legyen: Afrika legdélibb pontja ráadásul nem is ez, hanem a ...
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