This is the last post for our Wonderful South Africa trip and there are quite a few pictures, but it encompasses the last four days.
From Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo Desert, we spent a day driving Route 62, the longest Wine Route in the world. There is great diversity of scenery and numerous mountain passes as we make our way east to the Cape Region.
From the top of du Toits Kloof Pass, the whole Cape Region spreads out in front of us like a panorama photo! From there we drive through immaculate vineyards and sprawling, upscale suburbs into Cape Town, our home for the last 3 nights.
From Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo Desert, we spent a day driving Route 62, the longest Wine Route in the world. There is great diversity of scenery and numerous mountain passes as we make our way east to the Cape Region.
From the top of du Toits Kloof Pass, the whole Cape Region spreads out in front of us like a panorama photo! From there we drive through immaculate vineyards and sprawling, upscale suburbs into Cape Town, our home for the last 3 nights.
Breakfast on the deck of the River Lodge in Oudtshoorn
Diverse scenery along Route 62
Chinese Lanterns blooming
Montagu - a Bird Hide right in the middle of town.
Lots of Sacred Ibis, Egrets, Herons, and Yellow Weavers
Birds at the pond's shore
Looking down from du Toits Kloof Pass
Wild Protea bloom along the roadsides.
Cape Town from the side of Table Mountain
The forecast for our days in Cape Town was for wind, so we took our first opportunity and took the cable car up Table Mountain right away that first evening.
Table Mountain Cable Car, one of only three rotating cable cars in the world.
Doris with the Lion's Head in the background
The Twelve Apostles (mountains) soaring above the sea of clouds
Dinner on top of Table Mountain
Sunset over a Sea of Clouds over the Atlantic Ocean
Lights come on down below in Cape Town as we pose for a last group photo.
View from my window at the Rouge on Rose Bed & Breakfast
The Sentinel and Hout Bay
Sherry, Ed, and Jennifer at Hout Bay on Chapman's Peak Drive
Nordhoek Beach, five miles of pure white sand
Young South Africans sing and dance for us at Simon's Town
Another lunch with a view at Seaforth's
Penguins at Boulder's Beach
Lots of Penguins!
Fleeing the water
Wildflowers down on the Cape
Orpha posing in the Cape Snow
Cape Snow
Wild landscape down on the Cape of Good Hope
Pin Cushion Protea bloom on the Cape
View of False Bay from Cape Point
Taking the trek down from Cape Point to the Cape of Good Hope
Hundreds of Birds at the Cape
Wild Seas
Ed and Barb make their way down from the rocks
Orpha, Jennifer and Fern make it down to the Cape as well.
Cape of Good Hope, most southwesterly point in Africa
Ostriches at the Atlantic Ocean
Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden
A mother owl perches in a tree
The baby owls take refuge on a rock
Pin Cushion Protea
King Protea, National Flower of South Africa
Bird of Paradise
Watsonia and Protea
The 'Tree Snake' walkway at Kirstenbosch
Barb under a Camphor Tree
Middelvlei Winery
Jennifer uses the Wine Thief under Ben's watchful eye
Ben tells us about the Middelvlei Winery
Stellenbosch - Cape Dutch Architecture
Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch Vineyards and Mountains
Cape Town Waterfront
Cape Town Waterfront
Bo Kap District of Cape Town
What Colors!
South African Parliament
Gathering under a giant Rubber Tree (Ficus)
