Simonstown and trip around Table Mountain

We drove south around the Cape Penninsula to Simonstown to see our friends Carol and Jim. Nice scenery. Next trip we will go to Cape of Good Hope.

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Simonstown

Windy Day

We're learning that summer in Cape Town and the surrounding False Bay area, including Simonstown, is windy. Days are often filled with gusting SE winds over 30 knots, often over 40, and it is not storms, just Cape Weather.

Simonstown

Clock and boats

The Boulders

Hout Bay

Hout Bay Marina

Hout Bay

Good Place for Fish and Chips

On the road home the late day's sun and the clouds over the Twelve Apostles provided stunning views.

Twelve Apostles

Clouds over Apostles

Mountains and Clouds

World of Birds

In Hout Bay, near Cape Town, we visited another bird park, World of Birds (also had monkeys and small mammals, which we didn't get a chance to photograph). In this park, even though they were caged instead of free flying, we liked seeing them and were able to get up close to many.

Amazing creatures; it makes us again feel awed at nature.

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Scarlet Ibis

Egret

Great Blue Heron

White Pea Hen

Hawk

Crowned Crane

Vulture

Vulture

Secretary Bird

Secretary Bird

Ibis

Stork

Stork

Stork

Stork with Orange Beak

Stork

Bright Colors

Owl

Owl

? Bird

Head of Green Bird

Scruffy Beak

Bird of Prey

Brown Pelican

Porcupine

Carol Meets a Porcupine

African Penguins

These last two guys were not in the park. We spotted them in the bush near Simonstown, a place called the boulders.