7th June - Peaks, Point, and Penguins

On the 7th of June, we left the city of Cape Town to start our drive through the rest along the famous Garden Route. We aimed to get to Hermanus by the end of the day.

This the view of Long Street from the balcony of the hostel.

We stopped every now and then at places to get a view of the coast and the ocean. And this is da man with our car.

Yay. We were at Chapman's Peak.

View of the coast from the road.

We stopped at Hout Bay to take a look. When we were there, the weather was absolutely fantastic, instead of raining all the time, so it was great for sightseeing.



Then, we got to the Cape Point National Park, where we went to the most southwesterly point in Africa at Cape Point. This is us walking up to the lighthouse on the top of the peak.

The meeting of two oceans.

The most southwesterly tip of South Africa.
At the end where the cliff is, there is a second lighthouse that was built in 1919 at Dias Point because the first lighthouse was so high up that it was constantly obscured by the fog and mist , resulting in many accidents at Bellows Rock and Albatross Rock.

We then drove to Boulders Bay where there is a rather large penguin colony.
Aww.

And then we were off again, and left for Hermanus where we would stay for the night at Hermanus Backpackers.