We took another peek outside on Saturday morning and saw nothing but blue skies. We headed off to Table Mountain. Leena decided to take the cable car up (steep trails aren’t kind to her left knee due to an old soccer injury) while I took the Platteklip Gorge trail. It’s about a 2000 foot ascent from the trail head. A look up just after the trail head. Definitely steep.
A peek over at Lions Head and Signal Hill (left to right) from early on the trail.
Another look up from the midpoint.
A look back down from the top. The trail ends by coming up through a crevice in the face of Table Mountain (and good that it does because I’m no rock climber).
Once at the top, I had a 1.5k hike over to the top of the cable car to meet Leena. I got there right as she walked off. There was enough of a line at the bottom to make the timing perfect. Lions Head, Signal Hill and Robben Island from the top – note that Table Mountain is quite a bit higher.
More from the top.
After putting in our “work” in for the day, we hit the beach at Camps Bay. Today was the warmest weather yet in Cape Town – sunny and mid-70s. But the Atlantic Ocean here is still really cold.
