Get Right Out of Town

Following our New Years carnival experience we learnt that January the 2nd saw another day of badly played music and drums and anticipating another night of no sleep we took the executive decision to get the hell out of Cape Town for the night. So to a light in Stellenbosch and the Protea Hotel. On the face of it we were facing a pretty dull time but when you combine the awesome sunset over the Vin Yards, the absolutely comedic dinner at Cape Town Fish Market and the awesome nights sleep it turned out to be a money well spent night away.

More Bowl Skating

My new found friend is the bowl in Rondebosch. Me and bowl are learning some new tricks. 5-0 the corner over the weekend and in the pipeline front side disasters.

Pipe Track

I took a walk along the pipe track which runs under the 12 Apostles while everyone else was being ill from the Christmas Bug.




A huge bird of prey - possibly a black eagle..

Sunset on New Years Day

Here's the sun going down on the first day of 2008.

New Years Pipe Track Walk

We both took a walk along the pipe track after my initial reccie a few days earlier.


Godzilla came along too

New Year

New year was a mixed bag, starting well and ending pretty miserably..


Starting with the sun going down looking over Cape Town.


Then some fireworks down at the Waterfront at midnight, all 4 minutes of them.

And then the fun really started...

We've had to endure 2 weeks of night market on Adderly street directly below out apartment which hs involved lot's of load PA, music and packing up stalls until 2am.. But this took the biscuit - a marching band parade locally known as the Coon Carnival (I kid you not) was running from midnight right outside. Besides the thing being inexplicably loud, which was bad enough, the same troops marched back and forth all night playing the same talentless bit of music. At 5am after no sleep whatsoever I went outside and swore at someone in a uniform and learnt that it would be going on till 6am - by which time the sun was coming up. Awesome.

Safe to say, news years day was tiring..

Bettys Bay plus some others

We took a drive out towards Hermanus to take in the coast.


Not a great hair moment, but you get the idea


Beach


The view back from the drive home


Sunset over the Townships