Penguins in Africa ?

Day #27

Up early and off to the MyCity bus station with Moritz, we were heading to the city centre to meet our tour group to go on the Cape Point Tour. 

We did have a bit of a worry as we weren't completely sure where we where getting picked up from and it was 20 minutes late so Moritz who is use to German timing was a bit on edge. 

Our group was amazing. The tour guide was really friendly, chatty and an all round cool guy. It was his birthday as well. We had two German girls who were really friendly and good to chat to, we had a 42 year old Belgian who has been travelling the world so it was soooooo fascinating to listen to all his travels the rest of the group was great as well. 

Our first stop was Hout Bay. There we had the chance to go on a boat trip to see the seal island but I passed on the offer, didn't want a repeat of my last boat trip. Moritz went on thinking it would be fine, he came back not feeling very well at all. I found it quite funny!

Instead of the boat trip I had a look round the waterfront market and got the chance to get up close with one of the local seals. 

On our drive we got some amazing views of Hout Bay. 

After that we headed for Simons Town to visit the famous Boulders Beach, home to lots of South African penguins! 

They were everywhere!! Everywhere you turned there was a penguin. Bizarre to see then here in Africa but it was really cool at the same time. 

Next we headed further down to Cape Point Reserve/National park. Once inside we pulled over to get onto the bikes. We got to cycle through the park to lunch then down to the Cape of a Good Hope Point. We cycled on the roads so it wasn't too exciting but it was still good to change from being in the mini bus and good to stretch out legs. 

We all looked pros with our brightly coloured old school helmets! I like to think I pull of a helmet pretty well, haha! 

 

Had some great views on the way down, plenty of photo opportunities. Finally we reached Cape Point!

We hiked up to the lighthouse at Cape Point! Had a really good chat with Julia, one of the German girls and Johan the Belgian. Can't say how good our group was, everyone was really friendly, chatty and interesting to talk to. 

We saw lots of animals today; seals, penguins, ostriches and lots of baboons! 

Had a great day in Gods amazing creation! 

"Jump!!!!"

After the trek back down we all boarded to mini bus again and began our journey home. 

After the MyCity bus home it was good to walk into Saltycrax just in time for Dinner! Later that evening we had a games night! We played the game were you get 30 seconds to describe as many words as you can on a card. I was really impressed with all my foreign friends describing all these words in a language not natural to them! Good way to practise English, even I learnt a few words!! 

Can't express how good today was. The guide was amazing, Alexsi. The group were amazing!! Me and Moritz had a really good day, got to see a lot of Cape Town, speak to lots of interesting people and have new experiences! 

God Bless.