ABC Wednesday - S is for ...

March 2010, South Africa

... South Africa
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National Botanical Garden

National Botanical Garden Kirstenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town

March 2010

And yesterdays post was from the National Botanical Garden Kirstenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa.

African road - African sky

On our way north, in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa, 2010

Same place, different zoom, which one do you favor? And I link this to Sky Watch Friday

Penguins at Boulders Beach #2

African penguins at Boulders Beach, Cape Peninsula, South Africa, February 2010

More penguin pics in this post if you missed it last week.

500 posts already. When I started, I only thought about starting.

Linked to Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Penguins at Boulders Beach

African Penguin

 

Boulders Beach, Cape Peninsula, South Africa, February 2010

 

Andreas at the swimming beach, usually the penguins are at the next beach

 Linked to Watery Wednesday

Linked to signs, signs

Which way do you go?

Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2010

We took the roads north bound. Our start for Africa over land. From Cape Town to Alexandria. This was a part from our two years around this globe.

I forgot to mention that we came from Buenos Aires by plane.

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." Samuel Johnson

I like this kind of signposts.

Linked to signs, signs

Boulders Beach

Boulders Beach, Cape Peninsula, South Africa, February 2010

That's were the famous African Penguin colony is living.

Thomas at the swimming beach, usually the penguins are at the next beach ...

... or on the rocks

Andreas and I enjoyed the calm bay with a swim, for sure after watching the penguins.

Linked to Watery Wednesday

Cape town scenery - Chapman's Peak Drive

The Atlantic near Cape Town, Chapmans Peak Drive, February 2011

A view from a very scenic road. The Chapman's Peak Drive is famous for it's beauty. We had a wonderful day. I love this view!

From Wikipedia:
Chapman's Peak is the name of a mountain on the western side of the Cape Peninsula, about 15 kilometres south of Cape Town, South Africa. It is opposite the inlet on which the town of Hout Bay is centred.


The western flank of the mountain falls sharply for hundreds of metres into the Atlantic Ocean. A spectacular road, known as Chapman's Peak Drive, hugs the near-vertical face of the mountain from Hout Bay to Noordhoek. Hacked out of the face of the mountain between 1915 and 1922, the road was at the time regarded as a major feat of engineering. Chapman's Peak Drive was closed in the 1990s, after a rockfall caused a death and a subsequent lawsuit, and subsequently reopened after being re-engineered to protect motorists from falling rocks. It was reopened in 2005 as a toll road. The road was again closed for a number of months beginning on 19 June 2008 "as a result of risk areas identified on the mountain above the road", but has since been reopened indefinitely

Linked to ABC Wednesday, todays letter is V.
Linked to Watery Wednesday and to Scenic Sunday.

Unusual warning

Boulders Beach, Cape Peninsula, South Africa, February 2010

A very special place. Beautiful bay and PENGUINS. I have to show you some more pics. I will.

Linked to signs, signs.

Here it is

Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2010

Cape Town is one of the great places I have been.
From here we started our travel in Africa, over land all the way to Egypt.
It was a good beginning.