(Backup) Day 90, Wednesday April 4, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town,,,, day 2, what a day! This was our day to have a bit of a Safari, and it was more than we had antisapated.  We were boarded into two buses, we were on bus #1 and our guide was a wonderful guy named Winston, who was delightful, we had him again the next day too, but I get ahead of myself. 

So we started on our long 2 1/2 hour bus ride an this was a surprise too! We were traveling through some of the most beautiful mountains, huge mountains, and the literally through one of the biggest.  The tunnel was one of the longest we have ever seen 2.4 miles long. 

 

So after the 2 1/2 hours we arrived at Amazing Aquila and we all signed in and were given a nice glass of wine. 

 

Now we walked back to the back to board our 4x4, not this little one, ours held about 20 people. 

Our guide for this part was named Memory, but he said his name in  the African clicking way, so he shortened it to Memory, as he was going to give us lots of those, and he sure did. 

 

First stop was the hippo pond but, the pictures we took don’t show them well. We needed a telephoto on our cameras, and guess who forgot to put it in the bag. 

 Then it was on to find the elephants, and we did. And we saw springboks and Elands, and Wildebeest. 

 

We were still in for surprises, next stop was find more animals, so off we went. 

  

The road is bumpy, but then we found the king and his pride. I could go on and on, but if I don’t get this out I will be home, before I finish. It suffices to say we had a wonderful day. And all and all we saw the big five and then some, went back to the lodge, had lunch, which was delicious, and road our bus back for 2  1/2 hours, back to the ship, mellow and happy, about the extraordinary day we had.