Cape Touring
No wine tasting today. Instead we went site seeing. Other than the wind it was a nice day. Sunny and probably in the low 60’s. The cool weather has brought a new meaning to Africa hot. Today’s travels took us down to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point. It was a beautiful drive. We stopped on our way down and had lunch in Fish Hoek at Galley Restaurant right on the beach. It had a much simpler fair, but was still very good and fresh. Kim, our tour guide from two days ago, told us to try Kingclip if we saw it on the menu. Since it was on the menu at the Galley restaurant everyone had it but me. I decided to be different and get the Yellow Fin. Wish I would have gotten the Kingklip as it was a very tasty fish. As it turns out, Kingklip is actually a member of the eel family – quite ugly, but damn tasty. We also started with one crawfish, which was really a rock lobster. Again very good. During our meal the waitstaff sang happy birthday to someone at another table and then also sang for a couple celebrating there 50th wedding anniversary. Afterwards they sang a local song accompanied by a drum. They were very good.
We drove through Simon’s Town on our way to the point. Simon’s Town looked like a fun place, but we didn’t have time to stop. On to Table Mountain National Park and Cape Point which is the farthest south in Western part of South Africa. It is also situated at the junction of two of the earth’s most contrasting water masses – the cold Benguela current on the West coast and the warm Agulhas current on the East coast. However, geographically it is not where the Atlantic Ocean joins the Indian Ocean. That is at Cape Agulhas National Park which we plan to visit on Tuesday. The point was very beautiful and being spring the flowers were blooming everywhere.
We then drove back the alternative way than we came, stopping to see the Lighthouse at Kommetjie and to watch the beautiful sunset as there were no clouds. We then spent a quiet evening putting together a light dinner of cheese and crackers. Troy has now declared the “rule of N-1”. The premise is that we must not drink any more than one less bottle of wine than we have people. As an example, there are four of us, so we cannot have more than three bottles in one session. Last night we had close to N+2. Randy is currently arguing the wisdom of Troy’s rule.