May 5, 2012

 It is Saturday and we are going to go down to the Cape of Good Hope with Elder & Sister Oldham. The Cape of Good Hope is the most southwestern  point of the African continent.  The journey was quite interesting with some breath taking scenery, tight winding roads, and baboons.

The most exciting event on our journey was watching baboons. At one stop a lady in front of us got out of her car which really is a no, no because the baboon can be aggressive. Where there were groups of baboons there were, I guess rangers, watching them. They would tell people to stay in their cars and lock your doors. One lady either didn’t hear them or didn’t believe them. Either way she got out of her car and walked around the front of the vehicle. She hadn’t got passed the fender when a large baboon walked up, opened the car door and got in. He started by going through the ladies bags and didn’t stop until he found a package of tomatoes and proceeded to open it and eat away.  Happy as can be!!

We also stopped at a penguin habitat and saw quite a few small penguins.  Very interesting.

On most of our stops there were people selling their wares, jewelry, pictures, blankets, masks, ostrich eggs and all sorts of stuff.  Of course, they want a lot of money for them so you offer less going back and forth till we settle on something that both parties could live with.  It is part of the process.  I did buy a necklace.

Our destination point was Cape of Good Hope. There was a light tower which we took a trolley part way up and then hiked the rest.  I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.