Today is the final day before the G Adventures tour starts. We meet our Chief Experience Officer (CEO) and the others people on the tour at 6pm tonight.
We have tickets to go up to Table Mountain on the cable car. For those of you that know me this is a big thing for me as I haven’t really successfully got on to a cable car. In Hong Kong the cable car was being maintained and not operational, in Japan at Miyajima I wouldn’t get on the cable car, at Kosciusko I stepped aside as the chairlift came and Stu ended going up the mountain by himself and finally the young Indian girl I told to stop talking because she was making the cable car sway at Genting in Malaysia (I ended up catching a taxi down the Mountain while Stu went down in the cable car with out me.
Today I was determined I was going up Table Mountain in the cable car, I had strategies to cope, stand in the middle of the car and I was deep breathing as we went up the Mountain to the station where you catch the cable car. When we got up to the cable car station it was so windy it was even difficult to walk, and way too windy for them to run the cable car up to the top of Table Mountain, so it would seem that I still haven’t successfully gotten on to a cable car.
While I was very relieved the cable car wasn’t running, I am disappointed that we didn’t get to the top of Table Mountain. I think today I would have got on to the cable car, however the minute we got out of the car I knew I wasn’t going to get on it if they were operating in that wind. The staff at the station were very happy to take us to the gift shop and let undergo some retail therapy.
Unfortunately we aren’t going to get another opportunity to catch the cable car up Table Mountain with our tour starting tonight.
Peter then offered to drive us around to the other peak where we had a view across to Robben Island on one side and back across Table Mountain on the other. We don’t think the tour to Robben Island would have been running either the water was very rough because of the high winds.
We then drove back down the Mountain and Peter took us around as far as Camps Bay which was somewhere I had originally looked at booking a few days before the tour started. With how far out of Cape Town it is, I am glad we are staying at the Portswood which is very convenient to everything.
We had food from Mozambique for lunch today, and then had a little rest before we meet the rest of our tour group for a pre-tour meeting and dinner tonight.
We’ve now met everyone from the tour, our CEO is on the way from Namibia and didn’t make our meeting or our group dinner and we’ll meet him tomorrow. Tomorrow we are touring Cape Town and then down to the tip of the Cape and then penguins (hopefully).
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