Capetown Company's Gardens And Environs

Our walk continued to the Company's Gardens--originally vegetable and fruit gardens in this once company town--now a public park and small botanical garden (there's a big one down the peninsula...maybe next time). At the bottom of the park is the cathedral where Desmond Tutu was bishop.

Some huge old specimens

With a gorgeous backdrop

Dirty, rotten, filthy, lice-ridden...wait,, no; Egyptian geese

I neglected to take a picture of the tree, but did get its Maori name--Pohutukawa--
which I will need to use next January

Beautiful place

More history that is not beautiful, the slave quarters

Tutu's cathedral

We LOVED this church welcome

Interior

Back into the Garden

Centre of the Book! The national library is near)

Camellia blooming right on schedule

Wifi Tree (as a companion observed)

Rhodes Monument

Cute kiddie swings in the Garden

The Gardens as they once looked