As promised, we got up to the top of the newly refurbished Cape Agulhas lighthouse this afternoon.
Here’s Instagram’s take on the 7.5 million candlepower light and lens.
The museum, small art gallery and tourist info places in the lighthouse building are simple, but informative and there’s a much more open feeling about the whole ground floor.
Upstairs, however, is as steep and as tight as ever, but if my daughter got up there when she was three years old, you have no excuse. 🙂
Not the REM song, but an interesting thought as the UK and the Isle of Man face flooding, while my biggest problem is burning my feet on the way to the fridge to get another beer:
As you can see, it’s another gorgeous day down in Agulhas, and its sad to think that we’re heading home tomorrow – just in time for Sunday’s welcome(?) rain in Cape Town.
The newly revamped Cape Agulhas Lighthouse is looking superb and we have plans to get up to the top of it later in the week.
Obviously, it doesn’t light up during the day; this was the blazing hot sun, cleverly positioned behind the light by a brilliant photographer.Â
This popped up from Cape Agulhas Tourism on Facebook:
That’s Jo(landie) Rust and she’s happy to be back at Cape Agulhas because:
I made it! I achieved my dream of becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the African continent on a motorcycle, solo. Words cannot describe this moment.
L’Agulhas, most southern point in Africa, Sunday 24 November 2013.
We passed Jo and the convoy of supporters which had joined her for the final leg of her journey as we were heading out of Struisbaai yesterday. At that point, I didn’t realise exactly what she had achieved. Now I’ve had a chance to have a look at her website, I do.
What an amazing story. Go see.
Physically exhausted, but here’s one of those photos I mentioned yesterday.
With it, came the realisation that I owe Flickr a lot of photos from the past couple of weeks. But right now, I can only think of bed.