Day Three of Cape Town- Day Peninsula Tour

Today was quite an early start and quite hard to get up after our mini night out lol luckily the tour bus pick us up right outside our hostel. After the trouble with  the STA cash card, Charlie went to get monies out before we departed. We went around collecting all the others that are on the tour with us, while listening to the amazing facts our tour guide roger is telling us....

Seal Island

Us on the boat..

Once everyone haas been picked up we make our way to the first stop, Hout bay. We had the opportunity to look around the bay or go to seal island.... we voted go to seal island! only a 40min round trip. But it was awesome! We got up really close to the seals and the water was unbelively clear!! although the smell was definallty presesnt...... the seals were just lazy about or playing in the sea, we couldnt get over how many there were!! was crazy. After our trip we headed to a view point overlooking the bay, it was beautiful! pictures just dont do it justice. We had some lovely biscuits n juice then we hit the road again. We drove up 'Chapman's Peak Drive' which is a road cut into the mountain!

Baz Bus tour group!

Our next stop was boulders beach, we didnt have very long here but it was amazing!! you could walk 2 ways on wooden walkways to the main beach where the majority of the penguins were. you did see quite a lot underneath the walkways, we spent a lot of the time penguin spotting among the trees. some were in little plastic houses guarding their eggs or sleeping with their fluffy babies. there was a huge group on the beach with a lot swimming in the sea, was just so amazing to watch! there was even a sign on the main road "beware penguins crossing" little bit surreal. We were both a bit late back to the bus as we got go carried away watching the penguins, but luckily it waited!

we then drove further on down the peninsula towards cape point and the cape of good hope. we stopped on the side of the road and were given helmets and bikes. we cycled 5km through the nature reserve. there were a few tough hills but after that it was all downhill so we were left "flying" through amazing views. the end point of the cycle was the visitors centre where we stopped to have lunch that was all prepared for us and supplied by bazbus.

after lunch we drove further down to Cape Point, we got dropped at the bottom and took a walk up, the views were absolutely amazing!! from here we then hiked across to the Cape of Good Hope. along the walk we saw some osterich and wild dassies. once we got to the top, we walked down the other side, was a pretty steep descent but we managed it. at the bottom we were picked up by the baz bus and began to head back. on the drive back we ran into a troop of baboons in the road, there were so many babies! pretty cute!

we got back to the hostel, absolutely shattered after an amazing day! we fell asleep for 2 hours! woke up with no energy to cook so went and picked up a nandos takeaway then went back to sleep!

It's hard to go into detail of just how truly amazing today was! the tour guide was friendly, helpful and very good with knowledge, facts and making the day enjoyable. The driver was good, which from what we'd previously seen very rare in SA.