The Cape Peninsula extends to the south-western point of Africa. On the west side is the Atlantic Ocean and on the east, False Bay. Cape Point is generally accepted as the place where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet.

Our highlight on False Bay was ‘the Boulders’, appropriately named and the penguin colony that take up residence there.

Pictured at left is the Jack-Ass penguin that welcomed us to his beach.

These guys took us on a tour of their beach.

We proceeded south to the Cape, which is like a forked tongue – Cape or Dias Point on the east and the Cape of Good Hope on the west.

There is a funicular railroad that transports people to the base of the new light house. Pictured at left is the turnstile attendant. It is a Cape baboon. This is a different species to that shown in our earlier journals. These guys actually dig for clams along the Cape beaches.

The rock dassie, also known as the hyrax, this little guy is actually related to the elephant!! It looks like a guinea pig and we found it on Table Mountain and around the Cape, often rolling around in the dirt!! Isn’t nature amazing – related to the elephant!!

This sign welcomes one to Cape Point, the eastern part of the Cape. The sign is located near the bottom of the above-mentioned railroad and takes visitors half way up to the ‘new’ lighthouse, above Janet’s left hand.

From the ‘new’ lighthouse, looking south, you can see the old lighthouse below (brown building at the end of the path) and Antarctica on the horizon (just kidding about Antarctica on the horizon).

At the new lighthouse, there are signposts indicating distances to various popular locations (no, Toronto didn’t make it). The closest to home is New York, some 12.5 kKm away!!

On the other fork of the tongue (west) is the Cape of Good Hope – the most south-western point on the African Continent, named by the Portuguese (it was formerly called the Cape of Storms for that reason and the numerous ships that were lost rounding the Cape during storms.)

From foreground to background are Dias Beach and the Cape of Good Hope, as seen from Cape Point. We parked our car at the Cape of Good Hope and hiked to Cape Point. This is looking back - our car is on the other side of the rock outcrop which is the Cape of Good Hope.