Photo and “Slideshow” to come! Just gotta get the writing done! After several days of early departures and tightly scheduled adventures — Table Mountain, penguins, Cape storms, and our rather thoughtful “difficult discussion” about poaching — the final full day in Cape Town began with a gift: We didn’t have to meet until 9:30 a.m. […]
Table mountain
Day 17: Table Mountain, Penguins, Poaching, and the Complicated Beauty of the Cape
We began the day at Table Mountain, because when in Cape Town, you go up the mountain. The cable car (technically a rotating gondola) carried us upward into blue sky… and then later, back down into pure whiteness as the fog rolled in like a curtain being drawn. At the top, the landscape felt almost […]