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On our first afternoon in Cape Town, we went on a good walking tour with these folks
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The former slave prison (floorplan in background) is now a museum (floorplan in overlay) honoring those who were incarcerated
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About the Slave Lodge Museum
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About the collection at Cape Town's National Gallery
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Keyboards and cables
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About artist Esther Mohlangu's beginnings
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Clio, The Muse of History (2001) by Helmut Starcke (1935-2017) hung on a green wall
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Table Mountain behind the National Gallery and Jan Smuts in front
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Background information at the BoKapp Museum
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We stopped by the Atlas Trading Company where the air smelled like a Middle East market, but some products were South African
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First stop on our tour of the Cape of Good Hope is the shark spotter's station above Muizenberg
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The slopes of Table Mountain are green year round and renewed through controlled fires every 10-15 years
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About shark spotting
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Overlooking Simonstown
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Me at the beginning of the upper trail at Cape Point
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The beauty of nature at the foot of Cape Point
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After an uphill climb, arrived at the SW tip of Africa
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The SS Lusitana was wrecked in fog on Bellows Rock off Cape Point on 18 April 1911, prompting the South African government to build today's more visible lighthouse (behind me)
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Looking back up the Cape of Good Hope
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With Amy at sea level at the Cape of Good Hope
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We saw quite a few free-roaming ostriches in the park
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Facts about African penguins, including that they are endangered
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Penguins swimming at Boulder Beach
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The bluish coat on the younger penguins still looks a bit scruffy
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Nesting
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It seemed this couple were dancing
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These 2000 couples all came from a pair who arrived on the coast of South Africa back in the 1980s
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Specialized for a life at sea
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I was happy we could hear and see these performers from our table in Cape Town's water front district
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Chenin blanc, chardonnay, and cheese
