Cape Point and the penguins

We are now proud temporary owners of a tiny little red Hyunday i10 to explore more of the surroundings around Cape Town. Our first trip should bring us down south to Cape Point. It’s a nice little drive and we stopped here and there for the coffee or the views. At Boulders we stopped to see a penguin colony. No idea, what I expected but for the price of having tons of visitors on your doorstep every day, these penguins have a wonderful life. They have ready-made row houses…

and the most beautiful beach… 

 and they have shady places to hide from the heat.

Perfect place to lay an egg.

 And the visitors… oh well, you just have to learn to ignore them.

 Further on we entered the National Park, had a little bush walk and finally climbed the lighthouse hill to see the Cape of Good Hope

 and Cape Point, the south-eastern point of the continent.

At the car-park at the bottom of the lighthouse hill, of course, tons of tourists gathered and we were lucky that we didn’t come on the weekend. You could find the inevitable Chinese, flashing cameras in big noisy groups, fat Americans trying to reach the tops, the typical Germans all geared up as if to climb Kilimanjaro and all other not so obvious nations.

On the way back we went along breathtaking coastline, watching the sun go down, passing Hout’s Bay, (funnily I’ve just before read in the newspaper that the resident Germans finally managed to open their nudist beach there) and having a fancy dinner at Camps Bay during sunset… a perfect ending of an interesting day.