MickeyandKimWorldAdventures

 Cape Town, South Africa This was our welcome into the port of Cape Town, South Africa.  First time a tug led us in with water cascading ahead of us.  And wonderful rainbows.  Great views of Table Mountain.  Cape Town is the capital city of South Africa, and rumors have implied that they would like to separate from South Africa.  We have 2 days in this city.  Our first day was a trip into the wharf area, which is quite commercialized and really well developed.  We took a leisurely stroll admiring all of the sights, artwork and stores.  A nice lunch on the waterfront, and then back to the ship for a Royal sponsored "escape" to a local winery. Artwork along the way to Victoria's Wharf, about a 15-minute walk. If only I could have brought this stone owl home! At the African Trading Company, we found a much larger version of my Bathing Sheba by Gregory Mutasa.  We purchased her in Bermuda about 20 years ago when he was an up-and-coming young artist and he has grown quite famo

  Mossel Bay, South Africa Mossel Bay is a harbor town on the Garden Route in South Africa's Western Cape Province.  It was named due to the abundance of mussels. Our day started with a walk into town.  It was about a 15-minute walk to the center square, almost all uphill!  The morning started cool but heated up pretty quickly.  We took our time to stroll around the town, as our tour did not start until the afternoon.  We were there early, so not many shops open yet, but we did find a local crafts market and browsed there for a while.  Charming little town. Back to ship to catch our tour.  Our tour started at Botanical Gardens, which hosts the Post Office Tree, and has been used as a mail collection point since the 1500s.  We got postcards and mailed off to the grands.   From the gardens, we went to the Shell Museum, which was a huge collection of shells, many we had not seen before.  Very small aquarium. This is the Bartolomeu Dias Museum.  He was a Portuguese mariner and explorer