High winds cancelled our planned boat trip to R I, not wholly unexpectedly. As we have already driven into town before we discover this, Lianne instead books us tickets for the Hop On/Off red bus service, to get an overview of the wider city area without shifting our lazy arses too much.
Boarding it at stop 1, we had a very scenic journey to a sort of base-camp on Table Mountain ( stop #7).
From up here the sprawl of CPT city is clear. Over 5m inhabitants , mostly low rise, and a very industrialised dock area which generates a lot of the employment.
Back on the Big Red One, as far as Camps Bay ( doo-dah, doo-dah…) .
This is a STUNNINGLY beautiful beach, only slightly ruined by the gale force gusts whipping up sand into every crevice ( yes, I do mean INTO – very aggressive showering was required to get it all out). Only a total masochist would attempt to get to the sea ….
The bus then took us back to central Capetown –
So that was nice.
Then at 10pm we drove to the airport to collect Chris – who has been given the weekend off to stay with us – HUZZAH !!