Penguins!

At Betty's Bay there is a well-established penguin colony, situated at an old whaling station, and so we stopped once more for a little hike and a look at the birds.

Violet thinks penguins are cool

And so we headed back to Capetown airport

At the airport

At the Priority Pass lounge: a pour-your-own bar!

After the take-off on our Boeing 777, over the desert: farewell,
Africa!

A Bit Of The Garden Route

We carried on from L'Agulhas...ever eastward...

A milk tart for breakfast in L'Agulhas

Fisherman's huts being converted to apartments

After only a hundred or so kilometers we discerned that "Garden Route" was
really more about wheat and barley and livestock than tropical and sub-tropical
forests

And grain elevators

Swellendam was nice, colonially

Dutch Reformed

More old building in Swellendam

Every now and then the road swerved back onto the coast, which was mostly
nice, but sometimes not

See? Robot!

This was about as far east as we got; we wanted to try
Hermanus again, and so drove back to Swellendam
and a nice B&B there Sunday night

Thus

Back at Hermanus, we took a coastal walk

Saw these

And more interesting sights

And then proceeded back toward Capetown airport, stopping at Betty's Bay for...

The Whale Route, Hermanus, and L'Agulhas

Our plan for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday was to drive the Whale Route to Hermanus, then to the actual southernmost bit of Africa, Cape L'Agulhas, and then as much of the Garden Route as we could, consistent with turning the rental car back in Monday in time for our Emirates flight to Dubai.

Our sporty rental car; actually a bit crowded with all our gear from Africa
and for Europe

Interesting Capetown billboard

Our first hasty tasty in weeks...

Gorgeous coastline, rivaling much else we have seen

Mosque en one of the towns

Mile after mile of this

New sign for our collection

Looking back toward Capetown

Avast! Thar she blows! Click to enlarge and see actual whale
part

This was about all we saw, however

It was the annual Whale Festival in Hermanus, lots of partying, not so much
parking; so we drove on

To L'Agulhas, where the Atlantic and Indian and Antarctic waters all mingle

And there it is

Southernmost lighthouse

We found a nice enough B&B and then went out for dinner at the harbor...
where the locals eat, they said

View from our bedroom window at the B&B

Nice older Afrikaner couple; her parents' house