Table Mountain and the Cape.

Today the fog had cleared so we had an early start and joined the queue prior to the first cable car to the top of the mountain, The 'tablecloth' was still spilling over the edge but it was a bright sunny day. The tablecloth is the fine fog that falls off the mountain and quickly dissipates.  The cable car rotates as it climbs to give everyone a 360 degree view.

                         The view as we were about to go to the top.A real feat of engineering.

The views from the top are spectacular.We walked around to get the different views of the city and beaches.

The area has very interesting vegetation but much is very windswept limiting what will grow.

                                                           Views in all directions.

                                     Tiny wildflowers growing in a windy, desolate place.

                                                     Even the birdlife enjoy the great views.

We drove around wonderful coastal scenery with the occasional stop for photos.

 At times large fences were in place to protect us from the boulders rolling down the slope.

At Boulder, the African Penguin sanctuary there were lots to see. we walked on wooden pathways but at times they bit at our ankles.

                                           Down behind Gail there are lots of penguins.

                                                             Beaches of penguins!

We had lunch at the Black Marlin overlooking the Simon's Town beach. There were Southern Right Wales breeching.

Our final destination was as far south as you can go. We went to Cape Point the southern most point and went up by Funicular then walked to the old lighthouse. We could also see the Cape of Good Hope and later drove around to take photos of this landmark. There were wild ostrich and Eland .
We also saw they monuments to Dias and Da Gama the great Portugese sailors.