Day 4 (October 6, 2022)   Hout Bay

Before   

Map of Cape Town area







  We will spend most of this day in Hout Bay because we have booked the activity of snorkeling with seals and the boat leaves from there at 11:30AM.

  We will come back at lunchtime and the idea is to eat at one of the many seafood restaurants in the Bay.

  Then we will leave to do some of the pending visits.

  The spots marked at map are:

0- Urban Oasis
1- Sea Point Promenade
2- Dolphin's Beach
3- Hout Bay
4- Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden

After

  When we wake up I check the mail and I have an email from yesterday saying that the snorkeling with seals has been canceled due to the state of the sea. Now we are no longer in a hurry to leave. Today seems to be the day with the worst weather.
Our breakfast at Urban Oasis
  We are going to have breakfast and we take the car around 11AM. We are going to go to Hout Bay anyway as it is a place to see by itself, but first we want to stop by Camps Bay to take some photos of those beaches protected by mountains that we saw from the bus. Although today they are covered by clouds.
Camps Bay
  Then we continue to Hout Bay, where it starts to rain as soon as we arrive. We stop at the port to see the shops and the beautiful landscape full of boats.
Hout BayHout BaySea lions at Hout Bay
  I guess it's pretty empty due to the weather. Shortly after, some sea lions visit us, some of the many in the bay. We can interact with them.

Sea lion at Hout Bay
Hout BaySea lion at Hout Bay
  The seafood restaurants are here, but since it's not even 1PM, we still head out to our next visit: The Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, located in the Table Mountain.
Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden's entranceKirstenbosch Botanical Garden's ratesKirstenbosch Botanical Garden's entrance
  We pay 240R each to enter and we pass by the restaurant, which is close to the entrance. It doesn't close until 5:30PM, so we go out to explore the garden and eat later.

Kirstenbosch Botanical GardensKirstenbosch Botanical GardensKirstenbosch Botanical GardensKirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
  The garden is full of beautiful corners and different species of birds appearing here and there. We pass through the platform suspended between the trees.
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
plataform at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
  We return to the restaurant to have our lunch and order lamb shank with couscous for Eva and seared calamari with rice for me. I love my dish, with a harissa sauce with a slight taste of lemon. We pay 400R in total.

Mojo restaurant at Kirstenbosch
Our meal at Mojo restaurantKirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
  We slowly leave the gardens with a full stomach.
Kirstenbosch Botanical GardensKirstenbosch Botanical Gardens' entrance
  As we have plenty of time, I drive to the beaches north of the city and stop at Dolphin's Beach. All the beaches in this area are white sand and have magnificent views of Table Mountain and Cape Town, but the mountain hasn't managed to shake off the clouds along all day, so we're not getting the views we wanted.

Dolphin's Beach
Dolphin's Beach
  It's time to come back to the apartment, where we arrive at 5PM. We decided to take our last chance to try a Gastby and go to our regular place to see if they make it for us. In the end we order two half gastby's, because Eva wants it without eggs or sauce, just the meat, the fries and the salad.
Gastby's prices at UrbanMy half Gastby's
  We order it to take away, so it's in the apartment where we eat it, at least in part. The other part will be our breakfast tomorrow.

Great Gastby's