after about six months, i got my first visitor from abroad - Joanne from Edinburgh - one of the many campbellites i have known over the years. being my very first visitor, we did just about everything there is to do in CT!
some very strange/alien-looking (starship troopers?) incredibly large crabs
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a bunch of pretty big sharks safely within a tank at the aquarium
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feeding time for the penguins. the feeder is getting bitten while the ticker is making sure everypenguin gets some grub
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some eel-like thingy you probably dont want to meet in the ocean
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Joanne rather chuffed at seeing penguins, albeit in an aquarium
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the kelp forest ... nice eerie effect
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Joanne on the balcony of my flat ... notice the Observatory sign in the background
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sunset over the bay from the boat cruise
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table mountain from the same boat in the early evening
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the entrance to Van Riebeeck's castle ... well, more of a fort than a castle really
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the flags of South Africa over the centuries
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Joanne and an ancestor - the closest she got to a "real" African
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the governor's pool in the castle, complete with lifelike statue in the foreground
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quick history lesson, for those of you who dont know how the route to the East developed
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cell for prisoners/soldiers within the castle, which, btw, is a working military base these days
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the old dungeon, where the guide turned the light off to show up what it was like ... somewhat dark :)
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cannons pointing in the wrong direction - towards the governor's residence ... hmmm
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inside of St George's Cathedral ... Tutu's joint in the centre of town
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Joanne and me at my place ... staring at the camera waiting for the bloody timer to trigger and take the picture
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Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, with my finger next to a protea to prove "i was here"
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the rolling lawns where everyone had a picnic but us ... better planning next time, hussein
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a not-very-impressed English lass walking through the gardens
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penguins at Boulders Beach superimposed with the shadows of voyeuristic onlookers
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a quali'y photo from one of the more photogenic guys
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another "i was here" photo from the foreigh tourist :)
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more ancestors - or should that be cousins ? ... i was surprised to learn they dont have baboons in the UK (they have tossers, but no baboons)
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a very windy spot outside the old lighthouse at Cape Point, with both oceans visible in the background
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the new lighthouse, from as far as we could go towards the tip of the peninsula ... incidentally not the southernmost point - that was elsewhere
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looking north from Cape Point, with the Atlantic Ocean to the left and the Indian Ocean to the right
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Robert Sobukhwe House at Robben Island - Sobukhwe was a prominent Africanist leader
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the hussein at Robben Island, facing the mainland
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the prisoner bus we were on for the tour, with our tour guide (an ex-prisoner) at the door ... dodgy fella really, didnt say why he was a prisoner
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hole in the wall at the lime quarry ... not unlike lime quarries anywhere else i guess
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prison block where we got a short lecture by another ex-prisoner ... notice the very obviously American tourists
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a bullet/concrete/barbed wire thingum ... probably set up as a work of art of some sort
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tourists walking under the barbed wire ... deep stuff
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Joanne at Nelson Mandela's cell
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the Table Mountain Rotair - rotating cable car, where we saw a large group of Americans so thrilled to be in the "Motherland" ... oh boy
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and Bono (of U2) was there too !
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Joanne on top of the marntin (somewhere)
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Maclears Beacon, the highest point on Table Mountain ... for future reference: a very long walk from the cable car
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the Indian Ocean and some of the Cape Flats and other southern suburbs
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Table Bay and the city centre
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Dassies, strange rodent-like creatures we were told were the nearest relatives of the elephant (ya rite!)
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the mutha-f**kin gangsta ... Joanne after getting her hair braided at a local braiding salon
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and then simply chilling out on the last day before heading home
