Ate Lunch Today Overlooking An Eighteenth Century Shipwreck…….

…..it’s out there somewhere under the blue water. It’s an Eighteenth Century Man o’ War and much of it is still intact under the water. Divers regularly go out and dive down to see the cannons and remains of the ship itself. Evidently there are so many shipwrecks—especially as you move south toward the Cape of Good Hope—that there is no effort to recover it.

I had a refresher course with only two people today and we drove out around the beach area and had lunch overlooking the white-sand beach. If you’re wondering, yes, that is a topless beach—I just need to get stronger zoom lens for my camera. A little further down the beach there was a movie being filmed—don’t know who is in it or what the name is. The weather continues to be beautiful here. There is no noticeable humidity and no mosquitoes. This area has no hurricanes or tornadoes, no volcanoes, and no earthquakes. The only downside is the crime rate on the streets and it is better here than in Johannesburg but still a constant concern here.

Speaking of cannons, I finished work a little early today and visited the local artillery museum. South Africa has a really colorful military history what with all the colonial powers fighting over it for three centuries. There are literally old cannons everywhere here in Cape Town and they came from all over the world. It really adds to the seafaring ambiance around the waterfront. While I was in that area I also took a photograph of the new World Cup soccer stadium the city is building for the tournament next year.

I’ve signed up for tours on Saturday (tomorrow) and Sunday. Tomorrow morning I’m going south all the way to the southernmost point of Africa—the Cape of Good Hope, or Cape Point. The trip follows the coast all the way down and I should have some spectacular photographs. Sunday I’m doing something entirely different.

This evening I caught the hotel shuttle to the waterfront and ate supper in a restaurant facing the harbor. As it got dark, I shot this night photo—it’s impossible to take a bad picture around here. It dawned on me earlier today that I haven't turned my television on in the hotel room since I've been here.

I should have a lot more to post tomorrow evening……