The Seanic Routes, take 2

*Copied and edited from Seanic Routes, take 1*

*South Africa has coastline on both the Atlantic and Indian oceans.  Currently, I am within far-off gazing distance of the Indian, but I've only touch the Atlantic so far.  The Cape Peninsula, which runs south from Cape Town, has received historical affection as the southern tip of the country and the continent.  This isn't actually true--the real tip is Cape Agulhus, which I can almost see from my current location in Hermanus.  The Cape Peninsula is certainly noteworthy, though, since it harbors Cape Town and does protrude drastically into the ocean, meaning rough sea-faring for the ships that needed to turn that corner of the world.  The peninsula also creates a large bay, called Valsbaai, or False Bay, which opens to the southeast of Cape Town.*


This post will cover the parts of the Cape Peninsula that I have seen.  I never made it down to Cape Point, but went to a couple of beaches on the False Bay side of the peninsula, then drove across it with Saranne and back up to visit some places on the Atlantic side, just south of Cape Town.  Here are those places.

Boulders Beach, in Simon's Town.  Large and chilled penguin colony makes the people flock

protective mother/sheltered chick.  it honestly looked dead for a while but I think it was just being thoroughly sat on

march of the penguins

the babies

after crossing the peninsula, this is the coast--mountain meets ocean, with curvy road in between

through the looking glasses

me looking this way...

...Saranne looking that way (north towards Hout Bay)

 

the sunset from a tiny hidden beach near Camp's Bay, just south of Cape Town on Atlantic

Yarrr

Saranne's enganged friends Andy and Liz were baptized early in the morning in Muizenburg, a surfer's exurb of Cape Town

ritualistically going down before marriage

now they are totally ready. did I mention it was windy like Chicago and cold like iced tea?