Thursday, July 1
Cape Agulhas, RSA
We didn’t have a big plan for getting back to Cape Town, once we had completed the beautiful Garden Route. That said, there was a big (to us) attraction between Mossel Bay and Cape Town. Ever since we had been to the Cape of Good Hope, and really ever since we had realized it was within driving distance of Cape Town, we had wanted to get to Cape Agulhas. This is the real southernmost tip of the African continent. This was a pretty big deal to us, to get to the actual southernmost point, and Josh, being so enthralled with Prince Henry the Navigator as he was when he was a youngster – we felt the trip wouldn’t be complete without going. Even if Prince Henry himself thought the Cape of Good Hope was the southernmost tip, if he knew what we knew today, he too would plug the coordinates into the GPS and head down there. We made our way to Cape Agulhas (N2 through Swellendam, R319 through Bredasdorp to L’Agulhas). We got to stand at the tip where the Indian Ocean is to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It’s pretty remarkable to the think of the significance of a pinpoint geographical location and stand there taking it in. We had a great time!
Back towards the lighthouse:
Josh the Navigator:
Looking south, only water and Antarctica in this direction:
Our 282km (175mi) drive from Mossel Bay to Cape Agulhas: