Table Mountain

One of the tourist spots for Cape Town, besides the city itself is Table Mountain, and you pretty much can't miss it once you get into Cape Town. Why is it called Table Mountain?? Well, look for yourself.

It looks like a table.

We drove up there, not to the very top but about half way up to be able to ride to the top. You can also hike up to the top but it looked steep and rough and I didn't want to carry 50 lb. Spencer halfway up, nor have Tyler do that.

Once we drove up to the place to get tickets to ride the gondola, this is the view we saw. All of Cape Town.

This was looking up from the get on point for the gondolas. It was a looonnnggg way up, but the ride itself took only 5 minutes.

A bit of a closer look.

When we got on the floor started to spin, so everyone could see all views. It was pretty cool. This was the hiking trail to go up, we saw two people on that trail and they looked tired.

A look back over Cape Town while going up the gondola.

More to the right.

See that first stripe in front of the rocks, that is the road that we parked on, and the building is on the left by the wires. A long way down!

We were even up above the clouds. It was soo pretty, and a little hard to breathe.

Remember what I was saying about perspective? Here is Spencer's head for some.

A little critter that was up on the rocks, we actually saw a lot of them.

Spencer didn't want to get near the edge, so he posed on the rocks.

Beautiful flower up on the mountain. I need to write down the names of all of these things when I take the picture, but I always forget. It was pretty big too.

Spencer and I looking out over the Atlantic Ocean. Is that my parents house I see WAAAYYY over on the other side?? :) just kidding!!! It would be a FAR ways off, since if we did see anything it would be South America, but you can't see it.

Here is what the top of Table Mountain looks like.

Cape Town from the very top of Table Mountain, you could see everything. If you look on the left side of the picture, on the right of that small hill, you see a circle. Got it? That is a stadium that was used for the World Cup.

I saw this guy sitting over there by his lonesome, so I took a picture. Not exactly how I wanted it to turn out, but it makes you see what a small piece of the earth we are.

Here is Lions Head mountain. Looks more like a lion's head when you are down in the city.

Cape of Good Hope

After going to the top of Cape Point, we decided to drive over to Cape of Good Hope. It was just as beautiful.

I loved watching the waves crash into the rocks.

The Cape of Good Hope.

More splashes!

You can tell how windy it was with this wave.

This was on our drive back home. This beach was gorgeous!

When we got back to the hotel we saw these people walking back and forth with these bright umbrellas. Looking around more and we found out that they were filming something!!

The actors just kept walking back and forth across the crosswalk. Also the water truck kept watering down the sidewalk and road behind them, since it was a pretty sunny day. :) It was pretty cool to watch, and a little boring too. ;) Another cool thing, those big thick white lines on the crosswalk...not really there. They put them down just for this filming!

Cape Point

The day after we arrived in Cape Town, we decided to take a road trip down to Cape Point. It's ONE of the most southern parts of Africa. I'm pretty positive I could see Antarctica....just kidding!!! :) But Cape Point is where the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean meet. It was GORGEOUS there! Here are some of our pictures from that day.

Driving down to Cape Point.

Once we were in the Park area we had an ostrich out in the middle of the road!!! There were a lot of ostriches around.

At the bottom of Cape Point. Beautiful, huh?

See that lighthouse up there?? Yeah, me neither, but it's there and that's where we were headed! You could either walk up there, or right a gondola type thing.

We chose the gondola. :)

Up at the lighthouse.

They had a post right in the middle of the area in front of the lighthouse and New York was on there! So we HAD to take a picture. New York is our next post, can you believe it's 12,541 KM away?!?!

Also, you can't tell in this picture but it was SOOOO WINDY up there. I had to lean forward to try to get the pictures I took so I wouldn't be blown back. Spencer was actually really scared to do this because he was afraid his flip-flops would be swept away or that he would!

At the top looking down. You see that road coming along the hill, that first part where it gets big is where we were parked. umm...yeah it was a long way up!

A little private beach near Cape Point.

The meeting place of the two oceans.

Sorry the guys head is in the way, but sometimes you need some perspective about how big and far away things are, he was my perspective. And the white caps out there...no idea what they were?? Perhaps the meeting spot?

What a beautiful world we live in.

Once we had fun up at the lighthouse looking around and were tired of being pushed by the wind we went down to the gift shop and we found this beauty!

I had to take a picture for my father-in-law Todd, he loves these boat models. Wish we could have gotten it for you Todd, but there was no way we were going to get that thing back to the States all in one piece!!

Cape Town Aquarium

One of the cloudy days while in Cape Town we decided to go to the Aquarium that was nearby. It was pretty great!

Spencer with all the Nemo's!!!

He loved being able to be in the middle of them all.

Big jellyfish.

Spider Crab, this photo makes it look really scary, but let's face it they are!

Our Spencer penguin.

We were able to watch them feed the penguins that were there.

Then the penguins went for a swim. They had an observation deck above the water, and below the water.

They started jumping out of the water! It was crazy how fast penguins can swim.

I see you penguin.

They are pretty cute animals.

The COOLEST thing ever! So you know how aquariums have huge walls of glass so you can watch all the fish swim around. Well this is that, but it was cloudy like water would normally be, and it had a small current. So the plants would sway back and forth, and it felt like you were actually in there with the fish.

Spencer underwater?

SHARK!

Watch out Spencer!!!!

A big school of fish.

Divers who were getting into the water to swim with the sharks and other fish. It was fun watching the one professional one and the other three who were doing it for the first time, especially when a shark would swim close by.

The aquarium was awesome as you can tell, and a bit different than other aquariums we have been to, just because of the different location.