lots of climbing and baboons! :o)

On Friday, Darek, a Polish guy doing another ASA project in Pretoria, came to visit us. His project is finished now and he wanted to spend a few days in Cape Town before flying back to Europe. He says that Cape Town & its surroundings are much more beautiful than Joburg & Pretoria. So, it seems that I won't miss much if I'm not going there. The weather was very nice throughout the weekend, so we spent lots of time outside. On Saturday we drove to the Cape of Good Hope. We've been there once, but since the nature there is magnificent, I'd go back there anytime. Besides, last time my camera was broken and now I wanted to take pictures with my new one. The weather was sunny, but not too hot, so I thought that sunblock would not be necessary. Well, I was wrong.. By the evening, my face was completely sunburnt! While at the Cape Point, I was really hoping to see baboons (a kind of ape). Unfortunately, we didn't see any.

On our way back we stopped at a beach. We were just walking around when we suddenly saw a baboon on a hilltop! It stayed there for a while and then disappeared behind the hill. We followed the baboon and suddenly saw that there were many of them!
At first I was a bit frightened, because the baboons are considered rather dangerous and agressive animals. But as we saw that they were not really interested in attacking us, we went closer and took some great pictures of them! My favourite picture is the one where a baboon is climbing on our Beetle!!!

On Sunday, the weather was sunny and quite hot (and this time I used sunblock!). We climbed the Lion's Head (again!) - I really enjoyed the climb, especially the part with the ladders and chains! :o) The view from the top was great! This time I made some panorama pictures and a 360 degree video! After climbing down we drove to Camps Bay to go swimming. The water was still quite freezing and this time, the waves were really huge!