We arrived back this morning at 4.30am, and boy is it cold. Back at work today - it seems strange to be sat at a computer again, and not be wielding a hammer, pushing a wheelbarrow or donning my hard hat, which proudly sits in my office now. I will come back on later or tomorrow and finish off the trip, as we have the celebrations and party to share, our trip to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 of his 27 years in a cell shorter than the length of his body, and our final trip to the Port of Cape Town just before we flew home. See you later. Thank you again for following the blog. Rhiannon
We had another great morning of tourist bits carried on from yesterday, which included, the trip to see the penguins at Table Mountain National Park and a funicular ride to the top of Cape Point, which is pretty much the southern most tip of South Africa - stunning scenery. An African Penguin - one of the few sites where this endangered bird can be observed at Nancy (a training brickie) and me at Cape Point - thigh burn even on the descent down it was so steep Add caption The somewhat blurred picture is a wild baboon believe it or not. There were about three of them. It really is a baboon! Today, Sunday, we were supposed to go up Table Mountain, but it had its table cloth on it today (in other words, a layer of cloud so you can go up there but you wouldn't see anything). Change of plans, but there is so much to see we were spoilt for choice. Instead we ventured to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, which were superb - like no other gard...
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