Today we toured around Cape Town. We hit the Cape of Good Hope, we saw the penguins at Boulder Beach, and we spied some baboons on the side of the road. The weather was a little too crummy to hit Table Mountain, maybe later. We did see some amazing cliffs and hillsides, and we drove by the secluded beach leading to David Beckham’s private residence.
When we got back to the hotel we visited the Harbor and had dinner at Balthezar’s. Which won best restaurant in Cape Town in 2005. I had the Lamb Burger (yum) and Maggie had the Beast Skewer, we’ll have to look up which animals were on there.
Tomorrow is the winelands.
We uploaded about 60 pics tonight. I’m working on video… I’ve made an update, there will now be new, separate albums for each day. To view today’s pics only, click here, but to see pics from all the days, divided up by day, click here (this single link will be updated, if you’re looking for something to bookmark)
Wow, I’ve never done 24 hours in confinement like that, but we’re done and at the hotel. We got hooked up on the web, did a video chat with Oscar (thank you Aunt Melissa and Uncle Todd) and got to hit the hotel bar to meet some of the other folks.
There are about 90 people total here, wow!
It’s wet and midnight, so I haven’t seen too much of real “Africa” yet, but we’re anxious to begin.
More soon
I’m almost all put together. I was getting anxious trying to round up new cameras, memory and spare batteries at the last minute.
Exhibit A
I can’t find the actual bracket that allows me to wear the helmetcam on my head, but it’s a waterproof video camera, so I can use it when we hang out with the penguins, and ride on the zipline.
AND believe it or not, I squeezed all of that into this mini Sony carrying case, which is only about 10″ wide.
And I didn’t even have to, because I can put a lot of the USB memory and card reader in my Laptop bag
I shouldn’t have any problems with battery usage, as long as the Outlet converters I picked up are the right ones. I’m bringing my old PC laptop (I’m anxious about my Macbook getting ripped off) and a bunch of blank CDs so I can keep the Camera Memory empty. I also grabbed a universal card reader, so if anyone else on the trip is running low, I could burn a disc for them.
Maggie and I sometimes leave notes for the other to find before we go to work. On the morning of October 27th, this one was waiting for me. Luckily I was able to complete everything on my list.
Scheduled to be live from Africa on Thur and Friday (11/12 - 11/13)
It appears the Oscar’s toy Muno stowed away and wanted his picture taken at most of our locations.
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