We left Cape Town and took a very slow amble down the west coast past many glorious white sandy beaches. We actually did not realise just how beautiful the entire west coast was, so we spent the morning calling into little white sandy coves but the water temperature and huge shark warning signs put us off taking a dip.

Eventually we bottomed out at Cape Point a southern tip (but not the most southern tip) of Africa and took a bit a hike round the Cape Hope.  

We tracked back up the east coast and stayed a few nights in a fab lodge right on Boulders Beach in Simon's Town. The beautiful Boulders Beach is one of Cape Town’s most visited beaches and the only place in the world where you get close to African Penguins. We got extremely close and some of the more aggressive ones were actually quite nasty.

There are lots of activities and we looked at some fliers deciding on whether to have a friendly encounter with our 'Great White' friends or take a more risky walk with the sedate Alpacas.  In the end with did neither and just soaked up wine and beer and over indulged in wonderful food our lodge provided.   The lodge owner promised us "a tuna like we had never had before" and when a freshly caught 57 Kg tuna arrived around 7pm we soon-after had an unbelievably nice tuna steak - he certainly kept his word.   

We are leaving Simon's Town to find some self-catering accommodation on the Garden Route before we both explode - the food in South Africa is amazing.  It was too hot or not safe (wild animals) to walk or run in Botswana and Namibia but now we have now excuse and need to start burning off a few calories.