Boulders Beach, ZA: African Penguins (day 6)

Boulder's Beach is a part of Table Mountain National Park, south of Cape Town. That beach is a protected area for thousands of African Penguins. The population of penguins has risen dramatically since the 1980's, when there were only two spotted penguins in the area. It is listed in the IUCN Red List over endangered species.

The diet of African Penguins is normally sardines, anchovies. As you can see in the movie below, that species is monogamous.

If they are not eaten by sharks, seals, mongooses or cats(!), they can live for ten up to twenty-five years.

I think that the language spoken in the background is Afrikaans. If I'm wrong, you're welcome to comment.

Cape Town, ZA: Climbing the Table Mountain

The mountains are dominating the sky line of Cape Town. The most remarkable mountain is the Table mountain (Taffel in Afrikaans), and the name is obvious when you see the mountain - it looks like a table. When there are clouds over the mountain, they form a table cloth, falling over the edge in a very beautiful way.

I and some co-travellers secided to climb the mountain from the lower cable car station to the top (from 350 meters up to 1050 meters at the top) 700 meters to climb!

It was a very exhaustive climb in the sunny and warm weather, and I drank some three liters of water during the two hour climb to the top.

That day, there were no cloth clouds so the view was spectacular, one kilometer up. We saw some dassies and some beautiful black birds with orange feathers at the back.

We waited for the sunset - and it was worth waiting for.