Today, a breathless, almost cloudless, sunny day in Cape Town, four of us - well five, if one includes Harry, the dog - went up to just past the Table Mountain Cable Car and commenced a walk which took us to the Block House and onwards and upwards onto the contour path heading towards Woodstock Cave. For various reasons, we chose not to go up to the cave, but did experience the sheer wonder of walking on what is now one of the official new seven wonders of nature as declared on 11th November this year.
What is so astounding is that along this walk, one looks out across Table Bay Harbour, the Green Point stadium which was built to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup, and Robben Island, renowned for the incarceration of Nelson Mandela prior to his release in preparation for becoming the President of South Africa in 1994. How is it that one can stand before all of this immensity, and take it all in in a single moment! Laid out before us, lay the City of Cape Town, a place which fills so many Capetonians with pride.
As always, my best photograph of the day is posted as Looking out over Robben Island on Project 365. This photograph by no means stands alone. Here are others:
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| Looking over Table Bay Harbour |
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| Looking up over a waterfall and on up to a mountain peak |
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| Before us the path we were to follow |
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| Cork trees dating back to earlier forestation |
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| A canon below the block house overlooking the route to the Northern Suburbs |
Last, but by no means least, is the fellowship of fellow hikers - the banter, the sharing of ideas, and a light tea. This is, regrettably, the last Friday walk of 2011. No better choice for a venue could have been made for this event.
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