Cape Agulhas

We headed off for Cape Agulhas, the most southerly tip of Africa, at about 11 this morning. On the way, we almost ran over a tortoise crossing the road!! We stopped to say hello to it and when we picked it up, it peed on us!!

We arrived in the town of Cape Agulhas and stopped off at the beach to check on the state of the tide. There are 6 resident stingrays who come to the beach on a rising tide and can be hand fed. The tide had just turned so we headed off to see the actual southerly point of Africa where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian Ocean. There’s not actually much to see – apart from rocks and waves and a plaque, as you can see in the picture!!

Then we headed back to the beach and bought some pilchards to use as chum to attract the stingrays. We had to wait a little while but soon they arrived. They were huge – about 1.5m across with very long tails and a very big sting!! They eventually started swimming up to us and ate the pilchards out of our hands and around our feet – AMAZING!!!!!!!!! Adrian took about 400 photos and I will get some from him to add here.

We stopped off at a pub on the way back to have some food. When we got back, two of our new volunteers had arrived and we have spent the evening breaking them in ;-)