Cape Town Extremes

In the travel books, Cape Town has been described as the "Escapists' Utopia" and the "Adventurers' Playground." All so very true. But people here also take things to extremes - people here are truly living their lives with gusto. Some examples:






Here, people don't just surf or windsurf. Yesterday on the beach, most people were Kite Surfing, catching 12+ feet of air on the crazy strong surf. Fun to watch!




Here, people don't just hike, many will hike up carrying a parachute on their back, and then run and jump off the top of the mountain to paraglide around for a while before landing themselves on their favorite beach. We saw this on Christmas when we hiked Lion's Head. From the summit, we were watching these guys hanging out for quite some time -- they know how to catch the gusts of air and just hang out with the birds enjoying the views! (Yesterday was the first day our legs weren't sore after that Lion's Head hike, by the way! Table Mountain is next -- on Jan 3, once Kathleen D'Isernia, a friend from Panama City, has flown in and joined us!!!)

And then there's the diving -- people don't just dive, they dive with great white sharks! And while I'm not about to try kite surfing or paragliding, I had my heart set on the cage diving with great whites, but unfortunately I didn't pre-book, and now that we're here, all the shark boats are completely sold out! I'm crushed about it, but maybe this just frees up funds for me to try the sky diving over the Namib desert in Namibia that I've heard so many great things about! Hmmmm.... :)

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