Table Mountain views

Not too many words can explain the thrilling view from Table mountain on a clear day. The big beach opposite is Blowbergstrand that offers lovely view onto Captown with Tabel mountain as backdrop. The islan is the now famous post Apartheid Island where President mandela has spend 27 years in Jail before being freed and become the 1st President of the new South Africa in 1994. Fifteen years since then ..time flies. The pointed tip is the lions head. Every thing you'll find on the left side of it i stunning views and the few famed beaches of Cape Town dwarfed by every kind of mansion, condo, appartment. town house, villa that the mountain slopes and coast can hold. Prices has skyrocketed so has development and sadly pollution also that can be seen on bad windless days floating about the coast. Hout Bay Fishhoek Northbeach etc will take on left towards cape point. The cute animal you see is a "Dassie", yes the closest alive relative to the Elephant. Sadly they eat nearly anything. I have seen them nibbling the plastic of trashcans and paper bags etc. They interrelate with all the table mountain visitors and that is the reason why they have grown to like to eat human trash leftovers. Sad sad sad. You can find this mammals all around Africa with different names in each country. To me they are visually equivalent to the "Murmeltier" found in the Alpes in Europe and maybe other mountain ranges worldwide.