Sky views

These crazy people jump off Lion's Head and paraglide down to Camps Bay Beach. Always a bit tricky in Cape Towns windy conditions! Interested? Click here.

Heat and, er, sea sand

Recreating the days of the Raj - on the beachfront of Camps Bay. To go inside, click here.

Hats off to Flanders and Swann

Another one of Cape Town's gems is the Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay with its elaborate swags that lend a feeling of theatrical excitement before the real curtain goes up. The Twelve Apostles of Table Mountain add a dramatic backdrop. We went there to see the show Hats Off - a performance of Flanders and Swann skits and songs. It was superb entertainment - well worth attending.

Out on a ledge

Today is a public holiday in South Africa: Human Rights Day - the anniversary of the massacre of innocent people at Sharpeville in 21 March 1960. We celebrated our freedom from the shackles of apartheid by hiking up Table Mountain with our son who is visiting us from the big bad city of Johannesburg. He is off to Brazil soon to do a hike for Save the Children and was looking for an excuse to break in a new pair of hiking shoes. Here he is at the top of Kasteelspoort - one of the best ways to get up Table Mountain. He looks like he is hitchhiking to a far galaxy! Far below is a rather foggy Camps Bay.

Pipe Track

Our hike today - a rather windy, cloudy day - took us along the Pipe Track above the "belle monde" suburb of Camp's Bay. This is a hazy view of Lions Head, living up to its original Khoikhoi name Kuru-gxan which means "emerging egg". A very scenic Sunday.