The sights of Cape Town

 

Our rented apartment right behind the car with sliding patio door for making it easy to get to the car and out and about.

Building has ground level/street level commercial units. The apartments start on the first floor where were are and go up 6 floors.

Off-street parking is provided on top of the commercial unit i.e. 1st floor.  A pretty intriguing and useful way to provide parking.

Penguin colony down the coast at Boulders Bay.  Quinte fascinating to watch them.  Some stand, some lay on their bellies, some seem to be guarding nests in the sand and some float on the sea.

Lighthouse at the tip of Africa.  You can walk up there which we did.

Looking north from lighthouse back down to parking lot.

Atlantic Ocean on the left (west) and Indian Ocean on the right (east)

Canadian tourist at edge of Africa.

Officially the most south-westerly point on the continent, for those keeping score.

Not a big selfie person like someone else in our travelling party.

Someone had to dip their toes in the Atlantic Ocean.  How many days has this bathing suit been carried around?

Not much in the way of swimming in Botswana.

No one swims because the ocean current on the west side of Africa flows directly north from Antarctica, up the west side of southern Africa.  Thus quite chilly and it never warms up.

 Back to my speed!  Rented lounger for $7.50

Nephew Jamie, like the young, more into the sun.

View back To Cape Town on boat heading to Robben Island.

Container ship from Europe waiting to off-load in Cape Town.

Sleeping mats for prisoners until world pressure created pressure for metal beds.

Single person cell with gate and wooden door.  Prisoners in cell from 4 p.m. to 5 a.m. 

Nelson Mandela's cell for 18 years.

Hallway down Block B where Mandela's cell was.

Entrance from harbour into Robben Island prison. 

11km's off mainland (Cape Town)