What an interesting day. Michael, Tara, Collin, and I took the day to make a trip to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point (the self-described south-western most point of the African continent, haha). On our way down, we stopped in Simon’s Town, where we saw the penguins, way back when, because we saw these colorful shacks while we were driving. The shacks are pictured on the cover of Tara’s Lonely Planet South Africa guide, so we had to stop to see them and take some pictures. These are the shacks you see in the background of my pictures, and yes, we are doing a human pyramid.
After we left Simon’s Town, we continued on our way to the Cape, when we saw some cars pulled off to the side of the road, and a baboon sitting in the middle of the road. Apparently, one of the cars had pulled off to look at them, when one of the baboons opened the car door and stole one of the passengers’ backpack. The baboon proceeded to sit in the middle of the highway and rip all of the books and papers out of his back, taste them, and throw them away, before settling on the two oranges he had in his back. I also have a video of the baboon sitting there eating and the American man just cursing at it, unable to stop the baboon from having its way with the bag.
Soon, we noticed that one of the baboons was on the hood of our car, so we started taking pictures of it. As I was lining up to take a picture of the baboon from the driver’s side, I realized that the backseat window was rolled down. I’d had it down to enjoy the weather and in my excitement of seeing baboons, forgotten to roll it up. About the time I noticed the window was down, so did the baboon. We all just sat back and watched as a baboon rummaged through our car.
One of the men who were there told us we should open the front passenger door to let the baboon out, which we did. The baboon escaped and we shut the door. Then, the same guy goes, “uh oh, you let them see you open it, now they know how to.” Sure enough, two baboons opened the door and got it and rummaged through our car again.
All in all, we had very little stolen by the baboons. A couple of Coke cans, a sandwich that I’d brought along for lunch, and some cookies that Collin had bought. Oh, and my stomach medicine. Yes, that’s right, a baboon stole my stomach medicine. It opened up the bottle, and removed two of the pills. I find it kind of funny that the baboon that ate my sandwich now won’t be able to poop it out. Life’s a bitch.
After we finally were able to get rid of the baboons, we got back on the rode (now smelling like baboons) and finally made it to the Cape. Once we got into the park, we noticed that the baboon that had climbed onto the hood of our car had also broken the driver’s side mirror. We proceeded to laugh hysterically. Luckily we fixed it pretty easily (she had just dislodged it when she climbed fro the hood to the back window).
Keeping in our history of desecrating historic monuments, we found the Dias Cross. We have no idea of this Dias was, but his cross provided an excellent opportunity for some pictures, as well as something to climb on. Moving on.
A bit later, we made it to the lighthouse on top of Cape Point. As far as lighthouses go, it was pretty boring, but it’s something we can say we did. The view of the ocean was beautiful though, and to me, was worth the disappointment of the lighthouse.
After we left Cape Point, we hit up the Cape of Good Hope on our way back. We got to see some ostriches on the side of the rode on our drive there. Once there, we got a few pictures with the sign proclaiming it the “south-western most point on the African continent.” I’m pretty sure the people we had take the picture for us thought we were slightly off as the picture we ended up taking involved us holding heavy rocks above our heads. I’m not really sure where my life is at the point my friends.
Well, that pretty much sums up today. I think we’re going to have a quiet night, maybe go to a Mexican restaurant and then watch a movie. Watch out for the baboons, everyone!!!
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