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Day
5
(October 7, 2022) Cheetah Outreach Trust
Before
On our last day in Cape Town we want to go visit Hermanus,
about
120 km away, a cute town where you can see whales from the coast.
In our way back we want to stop by the Cheetah Outreach Trust, a
cheetah protection center where we can interact with them.
At 6:40PM we have our flight to Johannesburg, so we should
arrive at the airport around 4PM to have enough time to deliver the car
and checking in..
About two hours later we should arrive in Johannesburg, where we have
booked a room in a hotel in the same airport to be able to rest and be
ready for the long drive that awaits us the next day.
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After
Last night we already decided that we were not going to go to
Hermanus because those many hours of driving is too tight and we cannot
risk to not be at the airport before 4PM. So we ate the other part of
our Gastby for breakfast that was left over from yesterday and went
down to do some last shopping in Cape Town without leaving the
apartment street, Buitenkant Street, and we get ito the District Six
museum to visit it. We pay 50R each as admission fee.
 
The museum shows what apartheid did to this district, which is
the one that the Europeans chose to live in and, therefore, they kicked
out the 60,000 people who lived there, letting them take only what they
could fit in a suitcase and turned the neighborhood in an area only for
whites. Shame of not so distant times.
We come back to the apartment to check out, load the baggage in
the car and head north, since we want to go to the beach area from
yesterday because today the sky is completely clear.
We stopped at Dolphin's Beach, which we already saw yesterday,
and we continued north to the Blaauwberg Nature Reserve, where we enjoy
the landscape for a while.
Then we turn around to drive back to the south and take Highway
7 that connects with the airport where, besides, there is also a visit
that we had left for today.
It is the Cheetah Outreach Trust, a cheetah shelter that tries
to solve the conflict that these predators have with farmers in the
north of the country, where they are not in any protected park and from
time to time they hunt a sheep or goat and they are being killed for
this reason. The solution this organization is working on is to provide
each farmer with an Anatolian Shepherd Dog, a breed that face big cats
and can protect livestock.
 
We have our encounter with a cheetah, which even purrs when we
pet it. Then they show us other animals affected by the same issue with
farmers that they have there such as the caracal, the bat-eared fox and
the black-backed jackal.
   
We drive about 20 minutes to the airport where we drop off the
car and check in the bags. We have time to spare and eat two pasta
dishes by 200R with views to the taking off runway.
We board and leave at the scheduled time on a flight that leaves us without issues in Johannesburg around 8:30PM.
 
We wait for our luggage and follow the signs that take us to the
City Lodge hotel, which is in the same airport, where we'll spend the
night.
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