Cape peninsula highlights

Interspersed with our security surveys, meetings and training with stake and units leaders in the Cape Town mission and stake were excursions into the gorgeous scenery which surrounded us.

At the southern tip of the Cape peninsula we hiked to the Cape Point lighthouse and later stood on the rocky shore of the Cape of Good Hope (sixth photo down). With waves crashing virtually at their feet were a male ostrich and a troop of baboons eating berries.

Just south of Simon's Town on False Bay we were delighted by the antics of a colony of African penguins that live at Boulders Beach, one of the few colonies on the mainland. Arriving during the molting and breeding season of the penguins, we stayed a respectful distance from them. Notice the pair "holding hands."

From an overview on Chapman's Peak Drive, our destination was the white sandy beach of Hout Bay, an active fishing port in clear blue waters. Here we watched boys dive from fishing boats into the deep bay, had an ice cream and let the icy cold Atlantic waters wash over our feet.