Hanging in Cape Town!

            This will probably be a short post since I don’t have a whole lot of time to write. Cape Town and the surrounding area has something called load shedding, where the power is periodically turned off. It happened for a few hours my first night here, and is scheduled again tonight. Anyway, today was a no sea day due to the weather, so the shark project volunteers spent the day hanging out in the beautiful city of Cape Town. San Antonio will probably always be my favorite city in the world, but Cape Town is becoming a close second. It was a little drizzly and pretty cloudy today, so we decided against Table Mountain, since we probably wouldn’t be able to see much anyway. Instead, after picking up the new volunteers from their hostel, we headed down to the waterfront to walk around there. There were a total of seven people- me, the two Alina’s, Ryan, Aurelie, and the new volunteers, Lizzy and Beth (yes, they’re both named Elizabeth as well, but at least they both go by other things). They’re both from Wales and are here for two weeks. This is actually their second time with the project; they came for about a month last year. They’re friends back home, so they planned this trip so they’d come together.

            We walked around the waterfront taking pictures and enjoying the view of the boats and the ocean. We ate lunch outside, at one of the restaurants in the shopping mall near the waterfront, then walked around the mall, going through gift shops and getting some souvenirs. I’ve known these other volunteers for less than a week, but I already feel like I know them so well. At about four, we met back up at the volunteer bus and headed back to Gansbaai. Alina’s cooking tonight, and tomorrow we should be heading out to sea again. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll bring my camera out for this trip or not; it’ll probably be a spur of the moment decision. Either way, tomorrow should be another fun day.

            Sorry for the short post. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have more time to write. This post’s food for thought: “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”- Tim Cahill