Swimming with Penguins at Boulders Beach, Simons Town, SA
Capetown at sunrise from base of Table Mountain
Dassie's from top of Table Mountain
These first three pictures were taken during my time in and around Capetown, which is a beautiful and cosmopolitan city. One of my favorite adventures in Africa was swimming with Penguins, there were hundreds of them marching home from “work” an hour before sunset to their nests. The water was freezing cold, about 15 degrees celsius (59 f), but the penguins didn’t mind! That swim was in the Atlantic and pretty close to the Cape of Good Hope. My swimming here, in Gansbaii, and in Jeffrey’s Bay (Indian Ocean) was way, way South. You have to go to Antarctica to get much farther south.
I really enjoyed Table Mountain, besides the day-hike I did from the Garden District of Cape Town, up to the very top, three times I did runs up to the base of the mountain from the city, a 3.5 mile climb.
There you have it, a few of my Africa pictures, and more to come.
