Cape of Good Hope – Western Cape, South Africa.
Before I owned a digital camera and well before this website entered my mind, there was Cape Town where Njabulo and I met, fell in love, and discovered a mutual passion for travel.
At the time, we were students at the University of Cape Town. We were young, busy with our studies, and occupied with friends, nights out, and day trips. Enamored as I was with the physical beauty of the city and surrounding Cape region, my disposable cameras were trained primarily on those obscure and memorable moments that hold value only for me. So, among stacks and stacks of old photos from that period, only a few come even close to capturing the physical beauty of the area and the feeling of the fairest cape. These are those.
The shots of the Cape of Good Hope were taken after a grueling cycling tour of the Cape Peninsula and just a few days after Njabulo and I met for the first time at Cape Town International Airport. Exhausted from the ride, we collapsed onto the grassy plane that sloped down to the ocean and found ourselves in deep conversation about a book of mutual interest–Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like.
Though the Cape of Good Hope is not actually the southernmost point of Africa (that honor belongs to Cape Agulhas), it is all that you have heard and more. Go. Make sure you check out the “jackass” penguins, the Cape Hyraxes or “dassies,” and the lighthouse. Oh, and don’t feed the baboons!