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South Africa
Apr 16 to May 13, 2008
The Big Trip > South Africa > Cape Town
 
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A foggy coastline was a constant for most of our visit.


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We narrowly avoided being stuck in this for almost an hour! Whew!!


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The waves here are huge, and they often have big wave surfing competitions around Cape Town.


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A good view of the elusive Table Mountain in the background.


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The Cape Point coastline.


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Cape Sugarbird.


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We made it to the Cape of Good Hope, which is only 35 degrees latitude south of the Equator.


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Notice the ostriches sticking their necks and heads up in the foreground.


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Using a stray piece of kelp as a jump rope.


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The African Penguin.


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The Rock Hyrax.


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Two baby African Penguins.


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A beautiful beach, now populated by African Penguins, causing controversy in the neighborhood.


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Fog, fog, fog!


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Sunset in Cape Town.


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The Division 6 Museum.


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A typical cluster of shacks in a Cape Town township.


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Nelson Mandela's cell on Robben Island, where he was kept for 16 years.


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The man on the left served five years in this prison and was our host. Here he holds up the arrest papers for one of the political prisoners. He related that political prisoners were treated much worse than common criminal prisoners, who were often brought in to punish the political prisoners.


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A horrid prison, but not without a marketing slogan.


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A new hairstyle for Sterling, with Table Mountain in the background.


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Cape Town harbor and Table Mountain.


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With our relatives Caroline Hazard and Jim Goedhart.


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Cape Town from a high-up vantage point.


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The Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.


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The four past Nobel Prize winners from South Africa, along with a promising young candidate!


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The head of the Great White Shark is pretty intimidating.


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Golden, an art entrepreneur who makes flowers out of discarded cans.


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The Cape Dwarf Chameleon.


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