My second day I went on a bike tour of the Cape Peninsula. By car my guide, Jason, took me along the coast to Boulder’s Beach to see the colony of African Penguins, to the Cape of Good Hope, and to Cape Point. From there, I biked (with the Cape Doctor winds at my back all the way along the other side of the peninsula through the Cape Point Nature Reserve.
African penguins mate for life
the cape of good hope
there are quite some number of baboon colonies within the cape point nature reserve. after we got out of the car to look at them (leaving the windows rolled up...), the alpha male opened the car door, got in the back seat, and starting rooting through backpacks looking for picnics!
biking through the nature reserve
wildflower season was getting started
being in a protected area, this one won't wind up an ostrich burger!
i passed 2 herds of bontebok
the dassie is a close relative of the elephant due to it's foot bone structure. they way they live in families in the rocks running around reminds me of rocky, coastal prairie dogs.
black girdled lizard - looks like a tiny alligator
road out of the nature reserve
i guess this means baboon and gazelles?
the "tablecloth" forms during summer afternoons due to the Cape Doctor (strong summer winds)
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