South America and South Africa

About 30 miles south of Cape Town is the Cape of Good Hope which we visited yesterday. Roberto from Spain was joining Claire and me and we had picked a very fine day with cloudless sky. Albeit the Cape of Good Hope is not the southern-most point of the African continent it really has something special, mainly also because of the many sunken ships close by. The “Cape Point” with the lighthouse is on a steep cliff and the seabirds were soaring in the wind that constantly blowed from the South. It was awesome to see with which speed they approached the sheer cliff, how they  slowed down the very last metres to finally safely land under the overhangs. True artists of the air.

The Atlantic Ocean had clear blue water and the beach right at the Cape was one of the finest I have ever seen. Albeit the water was quite cold due to the Benguela Current we were actually managing to splash around carefully avoiding to loose the ground below our feet as the surge and the rip curls were very strong. In fact swimming on that beach is not permitted and there are also no lifeguards. However, others were following our example and suddenly an entirely empty beach was “filled” with twenty people.