So here’s the photos from the first leg of our trip – along the garden route.
My parents at the base of table mountain. We took the easy option of getting the cable car up and down the mountain. You can just see it coming down above my dad’s head.
The view of Cape Town from the base of Table Mountain. It’s the most developed city that I’ve seen in Africa and one of the most picturesque with the mountain in the background.
I can’t remember the name of this part of town but all the houses were brightly coloured.
The view from the V&A Waterfront (which is where we stayed) looking across to Table Mountain.
We took a trip to the famous Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town. Being the green thumb that I am not I have no idea what the name of this flower is. Any suggestions??
In Oudtshoorn we visited an ostrich farm. I find ostriches totally fascinating to look at, especially their head and neck. They have so much character and their features look almost exaggerated. Like they are a caricature of themselves. I could stare at them all day.
And just to prove that I actually rode one – here is me on Peter the poor ostrich. He was very bony but surprisingly strong.
By the riding style you should have been a jockey.
I think we might borrow some of your photo’s Lorrin, they look pretty good.
The ostrich looks like he has left his teeth out!!!!
At Kirstenbosch: That is South Africa’s national flower the Strelitzia. It is on our 50cent coins.