Published: November 4th 2006November 4th 2006
Lions Head
Foreground views only - the hillside at Lions Head was covered with these beautiful purple flowers.
It was the one thing that I was really looking forward to, and it just was not a happening thing. I did get to walk up most of it yesterday, but didn't see all that much - it was cloudy, and I was in the cloud for most of the time. I then hit the turnaround time that I had set for myself, and was short of the peak.
Today wasn't that much better. All looked fine for a great walk up onto Table Mountain, but I got about 30 minutes into the walk up Platakloof Gorge and it was back in the cloud. This was serious rain, helped along by the run-off from the top of the gorge walls. Did this in about 67 minutes, which seemed to impress the guide on the red buss, but its hard to tell how good a time it really was. Then it was onto Maclears Beacon - today was not a day for the view, just get there and get back to the top station for the cable car. All up, was about 2hrs 15min to do the loop.
Back onto
Maclears Beacon - Table Mountain
If I was disappointed with the view from Lions Head, this was the view when I reached the peak of Table Mountain (Maclears Beacon?).
Not many photos - that will have to wait until I am using a USB enabled machine.
GOM. Only partially domesticated. Married to Elaine. Seperately they have five kids, all now adults - or at least maintaining the pretence. Doug hopes to tread lightly on at least a little bit of every continent, and only has one left to visit. Elaine wants to shop in every major shopping centre in the world, and is still well short of the mark.
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Date: 12th November 2006
Melbourne Cup
Finally caught up with the internet here in Swakopmund. Even now, it has been completely unreliable - not working at all this morning, and incredibly slow at other times.
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Melbourne Cup
Finally caught up with the internet here in Swakopmund. Even now, it has been completely unreliable - not working at all this morning, and incredibly slow at other times.
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Sarah Rullis
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Wow - this works!
Despina wants to know what your tip for the Melbourne cup is!! We have all had a look at your site. All i did was type in your name and your site was the first one up! Cant wait to hear more of your fun adventures!
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