We finally answered our question about where the Indian Ocean ends and the Atlantic Ocean begins.
It's not exactly here.
Or here. (This is the Atlantic Ocean, by the way.)
But it's close (Cape Agulhas). And the Cape of Good Hope NP was well worth the visit anyway.
It's a little surreal standing on this narrow point of land that is the southwesterly tip of the African continent and watching the line of ships rounding the corner where so many ships throughout history met their fate (it definitely makes you feel small). We were lucky to be out there on a beautiful, calm day.
We returned to Kalk Bay for dinner and finally ordered malva pudding (the most South African dessert), which I had sort of avoided because Abby had mentioned that she thought it must be the coffee flavored pudding (yuck!) KLM served us on the flight from Amsterdam to Johannesburg. However, with only a week to go here, it was time to test that theory and try this dessert everyone has been raving about.
Well....it's definitely not coffee flavored....and I wouldn't even call it pudding. It's more like an incredibly moist carmelized cinnamon/apricot flavored cake with a hot custard poured over it. ......delicious! By far, one of the best restaurant desserts I've ever had.
After the second night in our sweet little apartment in Kalk Bay (a suburb, though more like a fishing/surfing village, 30 minutes south of Cape Town), we headed to Boulder's Beach to see one of only two colonies of African penguins that make their home on the mainland, rather than on an island.
They are small penguins. And they are wattling around and swimming in the waves and sitting on their nests only a few meters away from you at Boulder's Beach.
Then we headed to "dunch" (as Ben calls it) at Lekker (an Africaans word for good or delicious - it is widely used here in all sorts of situations in which "good" might be appropriate) in Kalk Bay. Again on the menu:
...proving I was born in the wrong country.
Then, we went for a walk in the marina, where we saw these guys:
They almost beg like dogs as the fisherman clean their fish. Super weird.
That leftover 1/4 of Ben's cheeseburger from dunch didn't last long. Nor did the carry-out box in my hand (the malva pudding I ordered to go). Shortly after this picture was taken, three kids came up and asked us for our food. I reflexively said "no, sorry" as we've done for all requests for money throughout our time here. Then the kids asked again, said they just wanted our leftover food because they were hungry. I gave them my malva pudding. (They ate it.)
3rd failed mission of the trip. No malva pudding for me that evening.
Then, their friends (three more) asked for our other container. I took it out of Ben's hands and gave it to them.
And then, our children watched three kids, about their age, each take a single bite of the remaining 1/4 of Ben's cheeseburger, sharing it equally between them. In an instant, it was gone.
The walk home (me with a heavy heart - not about the pudding) was spent talking about hungry children....and food insecure families...all over the world.
Tomorrow, Abby will fill you in on our 4th and 5th failed missions of the trip.
Cape Point, South Africa
It's not exactly here.
Cape of Good Hope
Or here. (This is the Atlantic Ocean, by the way.)
The walk from Cape Point to the Cape of Great Hope
But it's close (Cape Agulhas). And the Cape of Good Hope NP was well worth the visit anyway.
We returned to Kalk Bay for dinner and finally ordered malva pudding (the most South African dessert), which I had sort of avoided because Abby had mentioned that she thought it must be the coffee flavored pudding (yuck!) KLM served us on the flight from Amsterdam to Johannesburg. However, with only a week to go here, it was time to test that theory and try this dessert everyone has been raving about.
Well....it's definitely not coffee flavored....and I wouldn't even call it pudding. It's more like an incredibly moist carmelized cinnamon/apricot flavored cake with a hot custard poured over it. ......delicious! By far, one of the best restaurant desserts I've ever had.
After the second night in our sweet little apartment in Kalk Bay (a suburb, though more like a fishing/surfing village, 30 minutes south of Cape Town), we headed to Boulder's Beach to see one of only two colonies of African penguins that make their home on the mainland, rather than on an island.
Then we headed to "dunch" (as Ben calls it) at Lekker (an Africaans word for good or delicious - it is widely used here in all sorts of situations in which "good" might be appropriate) in Kalk Bay. Again on the menu:
Then, we went for a walk in the marina, where we saw these guys:
That leftover 1/4 of Ben's cheeseburger from dunch didn't last long. Nor did the carry-out box in my hand (the malva pudding I ordered to go). Shortly after this picture was taken, three kids came up and asked us for our food. I reflexively said "no, sorry" as we've done for all requests for money throughout our time here. Then the kids asked again, said they just wanted our leftover food because they were hungry. I gave them my malva pudding. (They ate it.)
3rd failed mission of the trip. No malva pudding for me that evening.
Then, their friends (three more) asked for our other container. I took it out of Ben's hands and gave it to them.
And then, our children watched three kids, about their age, each take a single bite of the remaining 1/4 of Ben's cheeseburger, sharing it equally between them. In an instant, it was gone.
The walk home (me with a heavy heart - not about the pudding) was spent talking about hungry children....and food insecure families...all over the world.
Tomorrow, Abby will fill you in on our 4th and 5th failed missions of the trip.
What were the first and second again?
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