Thursday in Capetown - Malay Qtr, Green Markets, Camps Bay

Thursday 19th

throw the dice and write about: 

     1) best part

     2) best taste

     3) best human construction

     4) best natural wonder

     5) funniest language experience / word of the day

     6) worst thing

By Wil (1)

  swimming in the FREEZING Atlantic Ocean with Mum at her childhood hang out, Glen Beach. Unlike Australia, my skin didn’t sting or itch when coming out!

Kel (4)

Squirrel!

We saw him scrambling up a tree in Government Lane. He is  soft grey,brown, quite small and very cute.

Eastern Grey Squirrel. Introduced from North America by Cecil John Rhodes in late 1800s.

Jen (5)

 bartering in Green Market Square for  Capetownian artifacts - “I’ll give you nice price .. special price for you meddam!”

 Jeff (3)

  best human construction: all the multicoloured houses/buildings in the Bokaap area (AKA Malay Quarter)

Red Bull

Green Markets

"Doo Doo Doo, a dah dah dah, is all I want to say to you"

Girl on her beach

Jeff's best part was going to Glen Beach (small cove next to Camps Bay) where Jen spent a lot of her youthful weekend time playing with her brothers and parents and grandparents and cousins.  Late afternoon, sun setting over the ocean, the tablecloth was on the 12 Apostles and it was clearly an emotional time for the beautiful woman.  It was a special time for me too to imagine her playing here as a kid but more so seeing the circle of life as Kel and Wil revelled in the cold Atlantic water, spun on the beach building sand constructions and bounded over the massive boulders at each end of the beach.  The kids found what they proclaimed was their secret "nook" that no-one else knew of (a crevice / cave among the boulders), only to be disappointed to find out that mum and uncle Greg and uncle Mike claimed that nook as their own 35 years ago!