Table Mountain

We had an opportunity to hike up Table Mountain during our adventure week in Cape Town. I had been really excited for this since I had heard it would be happening. I love pushing my limits physically. But I soon found out what type of shape I was in…I swear it was about a billion degrees, and there was no wind. But it was pretty amazing because every time I felt I could go on any longer the path would flatten out, I would find a bit of shade, or more commonly one of the people on their way down would push me on. At least four to five times random strangers on their descend would say “don’t stop now” “your nearly there” “you can make it brother.” It was a pretty incredible experience. Oh, and the view from the top is breathtaking.

Ricky

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cape Point

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shark Diving

What an interesting day...we woke up crazy early, drove across the city and got to the ocean. We got onto a boat and we really didn’t know what at that point what we were getting into. It was such a windy day and therefore the water was insanely choppy. We all sat down and got comfortable, quickly we realized this was was going to consist of PUKING PEOPLE! I was dubbed 2nd to puke out of about 10 people in our site. The icing on the cake? We didn’t even get to dive in the water because sharks weren’t showing up. LAME. Okay I make me making this sound a bit negative. We did end up with 5 brief shark sightings…although most of us were too busy puking to see them…

Abby

To give you both sides of Shark diving, I was one of the few people that didn’t get seasick. I loved being out on the ocean and hitting the ways and sitting on the boat waiting for the sharks to come. For me the experience was very relaxing. And it was very exciting when the sharks did come around, and it made all the waiting worth it. Though they didn’t stay around very long like Abby said we did get to see 5 sharks. Also there were 20 of us that got to put wet suits on and even though we didn’t go in the water, you felt really hardcore wearing the wet suit. We had a fish head for the bait, to bring in the sharks and one time the shark surprised us and came up and destroyed the fish head and eat it whole! That was a pretty amazing site, it all happened so fast and seeing the sharks, teeth…I’m just glad I wasn’t in the water with him. So for some of us shark “watching” was not what we expected but we still had fun.

Melissa Kennedy