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    • ReisendeFebruary 2023
      1
      Dag 25

      African Penguins

      25. februar 2023, Sør-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F

      In 1982, a pair of African penguins decided to nest near Simon’s Town, South Africa. Since then, the colony has grown to 3000 birds!

      Boulders Colony certainly lives up to the name. Penguins were sprinkled all over the beach which is covered with granite boulders.

      Humans are allowed to observe the penguins from a boardwalk. We had so much fun watching them. Some were sitting on chicks, while others were turning eggs.

      One pair was busy building a nest; as one bird dug a hole, its partner would bring over sticks and even seaweed.

      I’m so glad that the conservation efforts here are succeeding!      Les mer

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    • ReisendeZuid-Afrika 2022
      Dag 26

      Boulders Beach & Cape Point

      22. desember 2022, Sør-Afrika ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

      Today the plan was to go to Boulders Beach and Cape Point together. Unfortunately, Matthew really was not feeling well in the morning and decided to go back to bed after we had breakfast together. After he assured me 10 times that I could go I left on my own to Boulders Beach. After spending some time finding a parking space for the car I walked the last bit to the penguin colony and even though I saw this back in 2020 as well I was again impressed by the size of the colony and it never gets boring to look at these adorable birds. After my visit to Boulders Beach, I bought a souvenir for my parents as well as a small Christmas present for Matthew and continued my way to Cape Point. The pictures of Cape Point will follow in the next post since I reached the limit of pictures on this post with all these penguin pictures.Les mer

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    • ReisendeSUEDAFRIKA
      Dag 7

      Morgens Boulder's Beach und Simon's Town

      5. april, Sør-Afrika ⋅ 🌬 18 °C

      Aufwachen, die Sonne spüren, den Wind hören. Wir sind direkt am Meer bei den Pinguinen, welche sich schon mal auf einem Morgenspaziergang begeben. Hier unser Hotel. Kann man empfehlen. Gut und günstig. Leider ohne Frühstück.

      Abends auf der Rückfahrt kam uns eine Herde Baboons (Affen, Abteilung Gibon) entgegen. Verrückt.
      5 x stärker als Menschen. Türen und Fenster geschlossen halten. Ganz wichtig, auch wenn man meint die sehen niedlich aus, aber wenn man den Körper sieht, weiss man, welche Kraft unter dier Haut lauert. Wenn die etwas Essbares riechen und es wollen, dann gibt es kein Zurück mehr. Absolut eigensinnig und die holen sich was sie wollen.
      Wir haben die auch danach noch in Simon's Town gesehen. Überall auf den Dächern und vor den Geschäften, einer hat sich eine Tüte geklaut und rannte damit aus dem Laden auf und davon, die Verkäuferin schimpfend hinterher.

      Heute Morgen auf dem Weg zu unserem geplanten Ausflug zum Kap der Guten Hoffnung müssen wir erst mal frühstücken. In Simon Town waren wir I'm Restaurant Saveur...kann man auch gut empfehlen. Insgesamt 400 Rand (20 Euro) für 3 Latte, 2x Avocado 🥑 mit 2 scrambled egg auf getostetem Sandwich und dazu griechischer Yoghurt mit frischen Früchten, etwas an Oats und Honig.      Les mer

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    • Südafrika
      Dag 5

      „Find peguins!“

      26. desember 2023, Sør-Afrika ⋅ 🌬 20 °C

      Ein ☀️ Gruß aus Kapstadt an alle! Leider ist der Wind hier immer noch sehr stürmisch und wir mussten unsere Kanutour für heute absagen 😢 abeeeer.. dafür haben wir heute Pinguine gesehen 🥺 vorher ging es noch zum Bo-Kaap, dies ist ein buntes Stadtviertel in Kapstadt, es war total schön. mit dem Uber sind wir zum Boulders Beach gefahren und konnten soooo viele Pinguine sehen, sie waren aber alle in einem geschützten Bereich, das Menschen nicht eindringen konnten. Es war ein wundervolles Erlebnis 🐧 uns geht es sehr gut 👍 nach dem Pinguinerlebnis gab es noch ein bisschen Shopping in Kalkbay und richtig gute Pizza. Ach wir lieben den Lifestyle in Kapstadt.Les mer

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    • ReisendeEscaping winter @ SA
      Dag 28

      Windmill Beach, kelp forest snorkeling

      16. februar, Sør-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

      So apprently, the movie, My Octopus Teacher, was shot here in South Africa in a very special underwater scenery called kelp forest. Kelp is also called seabamboo as they are pretty similar plants with thick stems and growing 40 cm per day, woah. The kelp forest is home to many special sea species including octopus, sea stars, sea urchins and more. The app only allows me to upload one video but if you want to see the beauty I saw and the animals I played with you must click on the link below. 🤩

      Two fun facts from today:
      - Devon already told me about this in the Kruger but I just couldn’t get myself to believe him so I fact-checked with the diving instructor and here’s the result. You know how are hands and feet get wrinkly when in water? Were you also told that it’s because of dehydration and therefore shouldn’t stay in the water for too long? Yep, this is all wrong. Actually, the wrinkles are an automatic reaction of our bodies ADAPTING to water so that the wrinkles can help us grip better under water. 😲😲😲 Crazy!!! PS. If you stay long enough in the water your gills will also stsrt to show. 😂😂 Okay, this is a joke, but the gripping is true, promise hahaha. 🐠

      - Sorry for breaking your worlds if you’ve seen and loved the movie: it’s sadly full of lies. 🥹 It is not one octopus all the time as the movie was shot over 2-3 years and an octopus only lives for a year. The movie was also shot in different parts of the ocean some in the Atlantic some in False Bay - another proof. And apprently, this guy is really strange, almost like a cult with his family, and when they ran out of money after the movie, they went on holiday meanwhile their house magically burnt down - for insurance money.

      Perks of making friends with the diving instructor who is yet again one of the most inspiring people I’ve met here. He used to be in IT, now he dives & snorkells, has projects with National Geographic, he is about to pitch a series to them to create educational content about sea life in Africa, and participates in an initiative where they take kids from the Cape Flats (one of the roughest part of Cape Town) to the water, teach them to swim and how to take care of nature, but mostly to show them another world with full of opportunities in the hope of helping them to find a better future and don’t get lost on the way. 💖🙏🥹💖

      https://photos.app.goo.gl/vcEzjrV7yrK1CJ9L8      Les mer

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    • Overlanding Through Africa
      Dag 38

      Boulders Beach

      13. juni 2023, Sør-Afrika ⋅ 🌧 16 °C

      The forecast today was for non-stop rain, but we had pre-booked a tour of Cape Point, so we had to venture out! We left after breakfast and managed to walk down to the waterfront to catch our bus without getting too wet.

      In a nod to the expected bad weather, the bus was an enclosed double-decker rather than the more usual open-top one. We were at the front of the queue and managed to nab two of the front seats upstairs. As we drove out of the city, this wasn’t much of an advantage as the rain was pelting down and the windows kept steaming up! Our guide, Rico, did his best to keep everyone’s spirits up and provided a good commentary about what we could be seeing if the rain stopped!!

      We drove over to the other side of the Cape Peninsula and picked up the opposite coast road at Muizenberg. The rain had eased by now, so we were able to catch glimpses of the colourful beach huts this resort is famous for. We continued through the craft town of Kalk Bay to Simon’s Town, the former home of the British Navy in South Africa. There is a railway line that runs along this coast. It could be something nice to do on a better day.

      Just beyond Simon’s Town is Boulders Beach, famous for the colony of African penguins that lives there. It was raining as we parked up, but, by the time we reached the beach, it had stopped again, and we were able to get some good photos of the penguins. We didn’t get as close to them as we did at Betty’s Bay, but because they were on sand, rather than in shrubbery, we were able to see them better, especially the nesting and nursery areas. It was interesting to see the young penguins at different stages of their development, from those fully covered in fur, to those who had shed most of it and were left with what looked like a furry scarf around their necks!

      We spent some time watching their antics on the beach and in the water before heading to the Seaforth Restaurant for lunch. I had fish and chips, and Mark had a seafood platter for one, which was huge! We sat with a Brazilian couple who have been living near Pretoria for the past year. His work contract is almost up, so they thought they better explore a bit of South Africa before returning home. They had no idea it would be so much colder here in Cape Town than it is in Pretoria!      Les mer

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    • ReisendeKapstadt und Garden Route
      Dag 13

      Boulders Beach 2 🐧🐧🐧

      10. januar 2023, Sør-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      Und da nur 10 Bilder gehen, hier noch die Bilder vom Steg 🙈🐧🐧.
      Hier jetzt ausgerüstet mit der Spiegelreflexkamera🙈🤭.
      Hier waren sogar Baby Pinguine zu sehen 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🫶🏻.

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    • ReisendeCapetown South Africa
      Dag 6

      Find Penguins

      9. februar, Sør-Afrika ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F

      Lovely place at Boulders Beach

      Today we traveled with Dennis and Jane to see the Penguins and then down to the famous Cape of Good Hope and Cape point.

      Dennis is a “birder” and was always educating us on the birds he was spotting.

      Here at the Penguin place we saw lots of them. We even spotted one that was nesting on an egg.

      Glad we stopped here.      Les mer

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    • ReisendeSummer Of Yes
      1
      Dag 151

      Found Penguins!

      8. desember 2023, Sør-Afrika ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F

      This would be a fantastic last post (in light of the website name).

      One of the many attractions to Cape Town is thst South Africa has done a marvelous job of protecting a colony of African Penguins. In the 80s there were only two breeding pairs left - the colony was being preyed upon by domestic animals, local fosh trawlers were out competing them for sardines, and human activity was encroaching. But that has been very successfully reversed and there are over 2,000 pairs today!

      I love to see a success story.

      The dodgy weather may be a blessing today. Apparently the penguins (not surprisingly) aren't big fans of heat.

      The overcast also makes the water spectacularly inviting and I confess I find myself wishing I could snorkel in this beautiful bay. I suspect that would be frowned upon.

      So.... Instead I paid my ~$10 to stroll on a very well maintained boardwalk and enjoy seeing hundreds of cute little aquatic birds just sorta hangin' out. They squeak and bray, they peck at each other, they waddle cutely. Birds.

      A highlight was seeing one dig out its burrow, throwing sand in the face of another. Yep. Fascinating antics. But seriously, a fun visit.      Les mer

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    • Südafrika
      1
      Dag 37

      2. Tag Simon's Town

      22. februar, Sør-Afrika ⋅ 🌬 18 °C

      Nach dem Frühstück nach Kalk Bay gefahren. Netter Ort zum Bummeln. Am Hafen die Fischer und mittendrin die Seals. Von dort aus direkt zum Bolders Beach. Schnorchelsachen mitgenommen, allerdings war das Wasser dafür zu aufgewühlt. Um 3 Uhr sind wir dann aufgebrochen um die östliche Kaphalbinsel abzufahren. Mit vielen Stopps an den Viewpoints und einen Stopp an der Straußen Farm. Zurück über den Redhill Pass mit wunderschönem Blick auf Simon's TownLes mer

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