Eggbert's Travels

Monday 26th March

SHE SAID :

Today we did a couple of sightseeing things that were left on my list. The Rhodes Memorial, on the foothills of Devil's Peak, is a huge, slightly OTT memorial, which is either loved or hated. Cecil Rhodes is quite a controversial person.

Next we had a slow crawl up to Signal Hill; our little hire car is rather under powered, but it got there eventually. You get to see Seapoint and the city from a different angle up there, also the mad people paragliding. 

We continued down into Seapoint and had a walk along the Esplande, then back along the main street (I used to go to Seapoint a fair bit back when I lived in Cape Town; more memory jogging here). That was the end of the day's touring; the rest of the afternoon was spent chillin' at the house.

The entrance to my old home in Bishopscourt

Rhodes Memorial

Archie & his large friend

Driving through the city hills towards Signal Hill

From the top of Signal Hill looking down on Seapoint & Greenpoint

Paragliding from Signal Hill

 

Along the coast-sea mist rising

Are you SERIOUS!

Beach at Seapoint

These highways to nowhere where there in the late 1980's

Apparently they were mis-aligned & then left!

HE SAID:

Putting on a harness attached to a parachute and having two blokes grab you and fling you off a cliff does not look like fun to me. So paragliding is out.