Sunday, August 23, 2015

Cape Town - Day 2

We had a lot of fun last night, despite a tough day.  We went to a brew pub and spent some time putting Wisconsin on the map for the other patrons.  The band used our enthusiasm to get the rest of the crowd into the spirit.  The highlight was doing the polka to a cover of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire"  Perhaps the low point was when he asked us who was famous that came Wisconsin and we really did not have a great answer.... Think about it.

The day was very different than the prior day at Robben Island and the settlements.  We did a tour of the Cape Peninsula (you can see it pretty easily on the map).  We saw penguins at Boulder beach, hiked to the lighthouse at the Cape of Good Horn, had lunch at a wonderful sea side restaurant and toured a couple of wineries.  This was along an absolutely stunning  50 mile route of beaches and mountains.

The nights activity was the farewell dinner.  I have not said much about our fellow travelers, but feel I must say that they were all fine active adventurers.  There were many, many wonderful and often funny moments over the past two weeks that we shared.  It was a very special blending of exceptional folks that shared a once in a lifetime experience.


Cape Town Peninsula beach

Another beach - note the horses at the bottom

50% of the submarines in the South Africa fleet

Penguin

At the Cape of Good Hope Lighthouse

You can never have to many picture of Penguins 

2 comments:

  1. So it occurred to me that Indian Jones / Harrison Ford went to. Ripon college, how's that for a famous person. From. WI? Your pictures are awesome, I'm sure they barely capture it all. We are so envious, what an amazing trip! Safe travels home. We'll be anxious to hear more about it. Love R&B

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  2. Oh yah, didn't you ask them if they had ever heard of Rob Knoelke? That was Rob's thought :)

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