How I spend a random sunday In Cape Town

After a delicious lunch with live music in Cafe Roux in the Noord Hoek farm Village

I stopped at the Slangkop Light house in Kommetjie

View to Kommetjie from high up Slangkop hill

Kommetjie

a quaint coastal town with one of the largest tidal pools and Long Beach, a sensational stretch of white sand that is popular amongst fishermen, surfers, wave-skiers, and wind-surfers.

Is also famous for its excellent crayfishing

Then a slow drive with many stops and walks on the Chapmans Peak Drive  

one of the most dramatic marine routes in the world that hugs the coast of the Atlantic Seaboard for nine kilometres

The combination of steep, almost thrilling rocky inclines, shimmering blue waters and expansive skies simply takes the breath away

Hout Bay

Hout Bay (Afrikaans: Houtbaai, from the Dutch for "Wood Bay") is the name of a coastal suburb of Cape Town, South Africa with a mix of neighbourhoods from the very rich to the very poor

Hout Bay is surrounded by mountain to the North, East and West and the Southern Atlantic Ocean to the South. In the North it is bordered by Table Mountain National Park comprising of the Orangekloof Nature reserve and the bottom slopes of Table Mountain beyond that. To the North-West it is bordered by the backside of the Twelve Apostles, known as the Oranjekloof. To the West it is bordered by Little Lion's Head (Klein Leeukop), Karbonkelberg, Kaptein's Peak and the Sentinel. To the East it is bordered by the Vlakkenberg, Skoorsteenskopberg and Constantiaberg. The world famous Chapman's Peak Drive is carved out of the mountainside and leads towards Noordhoek and onwards to Cape Point.

Then via Llandudno and Camps Bay through the pass between Judas Peak (part of the Twelve Apostles) and Little Lion's Head and

half an hour later I am home

Just another fantastic sunday in my beloved Cape Town  

Construction of new foot bridge between old GP Stadium site and the Cape Town Stadium

This road is closed off now

So you can not drive around the stadium anymore

                                     There are many men sitting around the edge at work like this

                           

This is what a wet Cape Town Stadium looks like on a grey autumn day

A dirty drab wet grey facade and roof ,

reflecting the dirty drab grey autumn sky above

The Urban Park however looks refreshed and colourful and hopefully will soon look even better

 because the grass is in bad need of  rain and looks dead in some places

Come rain or shine it always does look interesting from here

See there are more tent  frames being build on the old Green Point site

The sky lightens and so does the stadium

It wasn't raining hard enough but it must have washed some of the dust from the facade

and after rain comes sunshine

The roof looks shiny and blue again

Cape Town Stadium Night photos of last big test event before the World Cup starts

April 10

And today (Sunday) it was business as usual

they took part of a PVC facade strip off the West side and a whole strip off the East side

The facade is a never ending job it seems ...

Evening photos with sound of the crowds and views of the Cape Town Stadium, during Last Test Event

                                                                    Robben island in the distance
                                       These  photos have sound, if you click here
                         Standing half way up Signal hill, the sound of the vuvuzelas was quite incredible                                                                    as you can  hear in the video's

                                                                                Green Point

                                    I uploaded 2 videos on my You Tube channel here

                              I did not see as many people as I did for the Prayer Event, it did not

 look that busy but will know more when it is on the news

Thankfully it was a nice day and nice sunset ,so different from the day before with rain and grey skies

Many more photos tomorrow