After two exciting days with perfect weather, we decided that we needed to get up Table Mountain. We were feeling energetic, so thought we would walk up. Unfortunately, when we woke up on Friday morning, there was a massive cloud right over the mountain! Ross was super bleak, because he had never been up before. We had some breakfast and did some more work on our TEFL courses while we waited out the weather - we hoped that the cloud might lift, or even better, blow right away.
We were running out of time, because we had plans for the afternoon, so we decided to just go to the mountain and walk some of the way up. That way we could have lunch with a great view and return to the mountain another day (if the weather allowed it then). We packed a backpack, sun-creamed up and excitedly made our way to the bottom of the Platteklip trail.
We started the relatively steep walk with a spring in our step, and it wasn’t long before we could admire the impressive view of Cape Town’s city bowl. We stopped under a small tree for a sip of water and to take some photos. Then we walked on, zig-zagging our way along the rocky path, up the side of the mountain.
After a while, we were a good portion of the way up so decided to just walk to the top. We were enjoying the exercise, the subtle changes in the vegetation and the water. But most of all, we were just loving the view! Imagine what it must be like at the top!
Despite the large cloud covering the top of the mountain, we were walking in the sun for almost the entire walk - and we were beginning to feel the heat. As we got closer to the top, the path got steeper and steeper and our ‘view breaks’ became longer and more frequent. The rocks were cool to the touch, and Mel found one particularly refreshing.
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| Cooling off |
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| The last few 'stairs' |
When we finally made it to the top, the view was… miserable! There was a white curtain of cloud everywhere we looked. On the plus side, there were hardly any other people around, so we didn’t feel claustrophobic as we explored. There were one or two moments where we could catch fleeting glimpses of the city below, but they quickly disappeared as the curtain of cloud closed tightly shut again.
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| The awesome view from the top |
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| Where we walked |
We were cutting it fine to make it to our friends, Dudley and De-Marie’s house before the Friday afternoon traffic consumed us. So we caught the cable car down and steered our little car towards the already building city traffic. After a while we made it out of the city and the traffic began to flow much more freely. We headed towards Durbanville, and were excited to spend some time with our friends.
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| Top of the mountain |
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| Bottom of the mountain |
At Dudley and De-Marie’s we had an awesome, chilled evening with them, Justin and Mike. We ordered in some pizzas and had some good wine. Great day, great people and great experiences!
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