Cape Peninsulas, where the two oceans met

The second day of March, 2020, I was ready by 7.45, Gaston was the name of the guide and I was alone, so sort of private tour for me. We drove through Camp Bays which was very foggy, so we could not see it, then we went to Kirstenbosch botanical garden. I had a walk about 2 hours in the park, taking pictures of different flowers left, found some animals too, like land tortoise, sleeping owl, Franklin birds. It is a nice botanical garden, many plants collection, in the summer time they also host summer concert, movie night, etc.

From the botanical garden, we continued driving to the south, along Indian ocean or False bay, passing Muizenberg, Fish Hoek to Simon’s Town. We stopped in Simon’s town which is still quite authentic city with French- English architecture. In this town, the Boulders beach is situated and famous as the penguin colony in this area. I took some pictures of the penguin and also cormorant birds, as a bit away from the beach, there are some stone islands which is full of them, like the one that I have seen in Peru. Then we had a south African lunch with mince bobotie.

After lunch we continued to the south, entered the national park of Cape of Good Hope. We passed Vasco da Gamma point, the black and white standing cross to the Cape Point. At the Cape Point, I took the funiculair Flying Dutch man, named after a Dutch boat that sank somewhere here to the top and walked to the light house. Extremely windy there. I walked down with accompany of some baboons. The light house is at Cape Point where the two oceans met, Atlantic and Indian but the current mixes at Cape Agulhas. From here, we could also see Cape of Good Hope, which is my favorite view from here, the different colors of the ocean, and the curve shape of the bay. In the national park, we spotted, apart of baboons, ostrich bird and eland.

Leaving the national park, we drove back to Cape Town along the Atlantic coast, passing Long beach, Hout bay, Chapman’s peak and Drakenskop. We ended the day by enjoying the view of the Table Mountain and the 12 Apostle from Maiden’s Cove.

A bit history of South Africa:

Bush man 10000 bc and bantu people (from 9 different tribes in Africa) 300-480 ad . Portugese 1488-1498, Bartolomeo Diaz & Vasco da Gamma. 1652 Johannes van Rybeck, the dutch who also brought some slaves from india, malaysia, indonesia. 1688 the French Eugene, 1795 & 1806 the British and 1820 arrived in port elizabeth. In 1795, The British won the battle and made Simon town as central navy which is now SA navy based.