South Africa Part 2

Cape Town –

Quintessential town, with waterfront, shopping malls and restaurants overlooking the ocean or the famous table mountain . Everybody speaks english , the toilets are cleaner even than some of Singapore’s toilets (!!)  But we are told not to walk back to the hotel at night, even though it looks so peaceful.

 

 

Table Mountain, clouds in the air.

 

 

But every town has it’s slum.

 

Cape of Good Hope , Garden Route – where the 2 oceans meet and the pengiuns played !

This is indeed a fabulous ocean view, with the waves splashing against the cliff and the wind blowing against you !  In fact, we took our shoes off and had a run at the ocean side…

 

 

 

 Hermanus – Shark Diving

 Trip ended with a big bang ! – weather was bad in the last few days, but on the day when we are to do shark diving, the sky cleared and sun came out .. we went out to the sea, wore the wet suit, lugged 10kg of weight and went into the cage. It’s not really diving per se.  We were above the water in the cage and when the sharks come in, the crew will shout”down” “down” we would take a deep breath and went down into the sea.

I saw some nice sharks swimming round the cage with the jaws wide open

Unfortunately, I had a bad dose of sea-sickness while on the boat, vomited a few times and miss some action pack when the shark banged against the cages !

 

 

 

 

 

This is a trip with adventure, excitement, scenic, exploration,   something I’ll not forget in a long time..