Yesterday I rented a 5-passenger car and drove Lindsay, his son Owen, Owen’s wife Rhian, and Barney Ford (VP of InterVarsity) down the Cape of Good Hope. I thought it a little bit strange, considering that they drive on the left side of the road here, that with 3 Brits in the car I would be appointed driver... it got a little stranger when I went to pick up Barney and Alec Hill, president of InterVarsity, was with him and hoping to come along. He climbed into the car with a big smile... and I had to kick him out. There was just no room! He assures me my job will still be there when I return from sabbatical, however.
It was a beautiful drive, reminding me in places of Big Sur in California, but much craggier. And I don’t remember ever having the road blocked by troops of baboons in California, which happened here twice. We also saw whales, seals, penguins, rock hyrax (related to rabbits but looks like a woodchuck), ostriches and some species of large antelope like creature I have yet to identify. There were also spectacular flowers, particularly different types of Protea. It is commonly thought that the Cape of Good Hope is the southernmost tip of Africa, but that is not true—it is the southwest tip, and from it you can see the southernmost point. It has always been considered the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, though. I’m breaking it up into two posts so there can be more pictures.
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