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

Some Goings on: Christmas

So you'll all probably know, but we had Christmas in Cape town, and here's some pics from the day itself.


Christmas Morning on Lions Head


Someone having an expensive Christmas




Remember to bring your Tux for Christmas dinner


Top presents Survey:
Dave: Bushmans Knife
Nicky: Pashmina

We went for dinner at Five flies which is always good.

SHARK!

Yes that's right we saw a shark today. We were driving along Chapmans Peak drive and spotted a fin in the water. Although it was hard to make out it wasn't moving like a dolphin or whale and you could make out it's white underside and mouth. It was probably about 3-4 metres in length and I was pretty glad I was on dry land.

Other sighting of the day included Mr Goat here


Boschendal Estate




Mr Lizard


Mr Crab from Nordhoek

Christmas Eve

OK, I'm going to say this just because i can - Christmas Eve was HOT.

Anyway, do to the serios matter of our day.

We drove upto Langebaan and left a very dreary Cape Town, through sporadic lightening strikes to an awesome hot day.



This was the north end of 16 mile beach and the sea was wild.


Top sighting for the day were a massive Cape Cobra which we saw on the dirt road in the West Coast National Park and then when we were swimming in the Langebaan lagoon we saw a type of Ray called a Guitar Fish which was about 2ft long.

Then on the way back we could see the storm heading towards cape town.


To give you a really good idea here's another pic that you'll have to turn your computer on it's side to fully appreciate.

A very windy Camps Bay

We finished the day, that for me started at 6am and for Nicky and 35,000 feet, with a beer in a very windy Camps Bay.

First Mince Pie of the season

Before


After

This was Sunday evening

Sunday was grim

Yes, that's right, it rained today.

first thing i took a walk up Lions head to see if there was anything worth photographing, the cloud was rolling round the hills so i thought there might be some interesting things going on.










I guess this as about as close to public service broadcasting as graffiti can get - I didn't write this by the way even though I've lingered on dog poop in several other posts..

Then off for a bit of a drive along Chapmans Peak, which has finally reopened after it's extensive surgery over the winter.


Looking across to Hout Bay

I did take another walk up Lions Head for sunset, but my batteries dies and you'll have to wait for them to charge before i can upload the photos..

Saturday

With Nicky in the UK, I thought i'd have another board sports and driving round day. Taking in Muizenberg (too much wind for surfing), Fish Hoek (skating), Rondebosch bowl (more skating) and Table View (feet cooling).

Here's some pics.


Milnerton, Table View


This seemed to be a wreck of some kind, but who knows what of..


Sunset

Some Photos

This sums up how hot friday was.