South Africa I - Hout bay

This was the sight I beheld the first morning after arriving. Hout bay a quiet collection of homes and shops on the other side of Table mountain from the main portion of the city. The clouds just roll over the top of the mountain tops, it is a fantastic effect...like a bad toupee.

Tomorrow is the Argus road race, it is 100 odd kilometers of biking involving 30 or 40,000 cyclists? Can that be right? Anyway, the road leading up to this point, called Chapman's peak, was littered with cyclists...well, the whole damn city was crawling with them the whole time I was there.

View from the road going up to the peak.

Hout bay harbour has a fish factory whose processes sometimes waft nicely over the rest of the bay. There is a small beach and many restaurants, oh yeah and a bar where they serve Vindhoek pints for 16 Rand (about 2 bucks).