To start again where I left off, I'm going to do a quick rewind and get you up to date as to where we have been what we have and haven't done for the last fourteen days.
to start Not too much has happened and pretty much followed the following routine...
Eat
Walk to the beach
Swim
Drink tea
Read
Walk back from the beach
Sleep............
Eat
Walk to the beach
Swim
Drink tea
Read
Walk back from the beach
Sleep............
As I said nothing very much happened as one day rolled nicely into the next.........
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| Seagulls on the beach |
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| Moonscape view from our apartment |
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| No Shoe but Kwak in hand |
Then we wandered on down to the docks where we took a place on an hour and a half sunset cruise on the Cruise IQ catamaran - Peroni, this is nothing new for us as each year we go for a sail on either the Sister yacht Tigress or this time on the Peroni
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| Picture Of Peroni from their webpage |
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| Oil rig in Cape Town Harbour |
Lowlight of the day was that one of the mendacious ATM machines decided that Pam's credit card was invalid or some other pathetic excuse and swallowed it never to be returned, but we were not deterred, nothing stops us on a mission.......
Seeing as it was such a nice evening after the cruise and not really wanting to head out into the traffic we stopped by the small open air amphitheater in the waterfront to listen to the days performances (these incidentally are all free and you can walk in or leave as the mood takes you)Started off with the OBE - Omega Brass ensemble, a very accomplished group of disadvantaged kids that have been introduced to music as a way of keeping them occupied and out of mischief after school and now perform as a brass band ensemble, this was followed on with Christmas carols with the Salvation Army Band - I am not a big fan of Christmas carols ('nuff said) but Pam really enjoys it so I do a bit of suffering for her, This was then followed up with the Cape Town Highlanders (much more up my street) - But I must say all in all it was a very entertaining time.
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| Salvation Army |
Eat
Walk to the beach
Swim
Drink tea
Read
Walk back from the beach
Sleep............
Then along comes the next highlight of the holiday, friends of ours Tanya and Vaughan invited us to yet another night of Christmas Carols.... Just got to love those Christmas Carols..... at the Cape point Vineyard where they incidentally also hold a Thursday market, but anyhow back to the concert.... There was a young South African performer by the name of Nadine who performed a very nice repertoire of music and a few carols as the sun went down and we all partook rather generously of the local wine and food that was on sale.
All proceeds from this performance went to a local charity that allowed 350 disadvantaged children to be fed for a year.
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| Cape Point Vineyard |
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| The stage is set |
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| Nadine and band |
And yes you guessed it....
Eat
Walk to the beach
Swim
Drink tea
Read
Walk back from the beach
Sleep............
Some where in amongst this there was a bit of excitement on said beach .... the siren went off which sounds like an air raid warning or a call for the dead to arise, a shark was spotted close to shore..... people mostly rush out of the water, but a few more foolhardy souls stroll out and then proceed to argue with the life guards - I say let them stay in the water, get eaten and provide us with a bit of (gory) entertainment reminiscent of the roman games.
Fish Hoek does have a protective net, but we still have to evacuate in case a shark manages to breach the net and comes wandering around looking for something to chew on.
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| Shark Information Boards |
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| Shark Net being brought back in at night |
Walk to the beach
Swim
Drink tea
Read
Walk back from the beach
Sleep............
Christmas Eve... No..... No carols this time, but an invitation to a crayfish (Cape Rock Lobster) dinner with champagne on the rocks with our friends Tanya and Vaughan.
What an awesome dinner that was sitting on the rocks eating fresh crayfish (Vaughan had caught them that morning) while the surf broke around us and the sun went down, absolutely terrible we had to suffer so, but I suppose someone has to do it.
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| Pam with lobster |
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| Pam, Vaughan, and Tanya |
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| Looking towards the back of Table mountain |
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| Sunset |
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| One of my Rock creations |
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| Tanya with rock creation |
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| My rock creation to the sea gods |
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| Yet more....... |
Christmas Day..... NO!!!!....... NO CHRISTMAS CAROLS!!!!!....... But off to Christmas lunch at the Rickety Bridge Winery estate in Franshoek with my sister Marganne, her husband Brian and one of their daughters Robyn, Absolutely fabulous!!!!
As a closing bonus to the lunch I managed to secure a pair of Rickety Bridge Teddy bears for Pam and Robyn.
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| Pam, Brian, Marganne and Robyn |
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| Rickety Bridge Winery |
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| Franschoek Valley |
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| Rickety Teddy |
And so the Christmas Day ends, tomorrow I am not quite sure what is going to happen - (more on that later), and then Friday the big trek home starts again with another ???? KM to go.
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