To Good Hope cape

To Good Hope cape

Africa
South Africa
Cape Town
on the way to cape Good Hope


Travelling from Cape Town to the southest tip of the African continent, the Good Hope cape, one experiences sudden and most bizarre environmental changes regarding the shore line as much as the inland of the peninsula. The most fascinating are those along the shore with stretching areas covered with all kind of pebbles, sand and seaweeds washed out from an almost eternally agitated and frothy sea that extends sight to the deepest end of an horizon covered by colorful and most diverse cloud formations. On the way there are rocks, not very far from the shore, where nest seagulls, cormorans and sea lions and in various well protected rocky recesses, penguin colonies. Occasionally, deeper in the sea, a well trained and expert eye- definitely not mine- could spot the dark bulk of a surfacing whale....