I can’t talk about how beautiful Cape Town is without showing pictures. But even pictures from a professional photographer would not do it justice. Everybody who has been there knows what I’m talking about.
These are random pictures taken over the years.
The picture of Table Mountain from Bloubergstrand that you are required to include with every discussion of Cape Town

Glencairn, Fish Hoek, Kalk Bay

The second most famous view of Table Mountain, from Lion’s Head

Sunrise over False Bay

The city centre, harbour, airport, Table Mountain

Lion’s Head, Camp’s Bay, Table Mountain

Glencairn, Fish Hoek, Kalk Bay

Signal Hill, the city centre and V&A, Robben Island, Table Bay

Clouds from Table Bay filling Platteklip Gorge

The famous changing booths at St James

Clouds from Camp’s Bay creeping up Table Mountain

A typical sunset over the Cape

The same location years later

It is not so much that this is a crappy picture but what you see when you are in the middle of clouds at 1000 metres

Some boulders at Boulders Beach

Completely enveloped by clouds on Table Mountain

Simon’s Town Harbour and Fish Hoek

The moon over Hangklip, taken with a borrowed panoramic camera

Not a very sunny day over False Bay
Observant readers may have noticed I like taking pictures of clouds

Cape Town, taken with a borrowed panoramic camera
6 comments:
Your panoramic photo did it for me. And the moon. I seem to recall another moon photo you did some time past but I cannot quite place it. As I may have mentioned in another place, your photos have a certain coolness and reserve about them with a placidity that underscores a tightness that is almost violent. False Bay is a case in point and some or your city scenes where the calmness of the water lies contrapuntal to the darkness of the clouds and broods with explosive calm.
I must consult my alienist to see if one could milk something freudian out of all of these....
The last False Bay is one of my all-time favourites. When it's bigger you can see the blue tearing through the clouds and reflecting off the water.
I feel chilled. Looks like something from the antarctic with the white clouds or fog being snow.
No.6 is my favorite.
I vote Best travel photos.
Nice photos Mia.
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