A Day on the Pennisula

On Friday, Alan and I spent the day driving the peninsula of The Cape of Good Hope. We made a day out of it with lots of stops along the way. It was a beautiful drive and allowed us to see both coasts - the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Oceans and where they meet which was really impressive.

Our first stop was the Rhodes Memorial. Unfortunately, at the time we were not sure who Cecil Rhodes was since we couldn't find any information on him or what he did at the memorial but we can say we visited. Later we found out that he was the founder of De Beers diamond company and was an imperialist and colonialist. Not sure why South Africa has a huge memorial for him?




From there, we drove to Kalk Bay where we were advised to eat at the Brass Bell and we had some yummy fish and chips and ate overlooking crashing waves on the bay. We did some window shopping and gallery peaking before heading on to an area called Boulder. Basically, the coast is lined with big smooth rocks and penguins are known to mate there. Unfortunately maybe our timing was off. We only spotted this one confused looking penguin. Maybe he was left behind.




Afterwards we made our way to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve which was very impressive. It's a beautiful and odd looking terrain of short interesting foliage. It felt like we were on another planet completely. After driving through the park we stopped for some views at the lighthouse which allowed us to take in the meeting point of two huge ocean masses (the Indian and Atlantic Oceans). We had no idea there would actually be a line visible where they meet.






We then drove to the South Western most point of the continent - the Cape of Good Hope. Alan was excited that he could say that he was actually on top of the Cape of Good Hope which most people just read about in their geography class. Alan climbed over treacherous terrain to get this photo!




And I stayed safely put here on this rock.


We made our way up the other side of the peninsula which was a lovely drive with amazing views. We drove on the supposedly famous road called Chapmean's Peak Drive where lots of car commercials are filmed because of the amazing views and cliffs below. We unfortunately didn't stop for pictures because we were just focusing on staying on the road and on the correct side of the road without falling off. Alan's knuckles were white and I was most often gripping onto the sides of my seat starring at the road in front. But we managed to take in the view too.