Day 4 Table Mountain

Awoke to a glorious sunny morning without a cloud in the sky. After a leisurely breakfast it was straight up to Table Moutain. What a difference to Sunday, we parked within a 100 mtrs of the cable car office.
The capsule of the cable car up the moutain revolves and so it enables you to have the benefit of the full 360 degrees of panoramic views as you ascend. At a height of 1.085mtrs it is not an especially high mountain; but because of its position it dominates the whole of the Cape Penininsular. The views from the mountain top are stunning, enabling you to see, and realise how isolated and frightening it must have been for those incarsarated on Robben Island out in the bay.
We spent several hours walking around the summit, enjoying the diversity of the flora & fauna atop the mountain. There were "Dassies" by the dozen (Rock Hyrax), snoozing on the rocks and soaking up the sun, totally oblivious to the many visitors around them. After a little retail therapy and liquid refreshement, we returned to the ground and headed off the the waterfront for some lunch. We had planned to visit Robben Island in the afternoon, but the trips were fully booked, and so, we purchased tickets for the trip at 1pm tomorrow.

A leisurely lunch at one of the waterfront bars was followed by more retail therapy in the V&A mallls.
It's a good job that there is a weight restriction on our baggage or Bryony would have bought up half the shops, & Bill would have bought the rest.

All in all another lovely day, looking forward to tomorrow :)