I feel like this should be multiple posts. It is such an incredible day and I would recommend it to everyone. For reference I travelled with DayTrippers. Our guide was Pedro St Clair, a Capetonian.
Day starts at 8 am with a pick up from the hostel, mini bus and clients collected we are good to set off. There was only 4 of us on this tour which made the tour even better as we could really get to know one another.
Our first stop was Hout Bay, R80 would have taken us on a glass bottomed boat out to Seal Island. The sea was too rough this morning to be able to do it. But we did not not see them, they were all over the Bay. Some even joined us on land. You can pay to have a photo with one of them, but doesn’t seem natural to do that for me but we saw other doing it. This is a short stop without the boat trip but not wasted – good place for a coffee top up and walk around.
Moving on. There is a little stop place with bathrooms along Chapmans Peak – a real feat of engineering. Beautiful views back to Hout Bay. It is a road cut into the rock, into the mountain. Built on top of granite but into sandstone – the colours are phenomenal. A stunning drive even by itself. Or cycle if your brave enough…
We soon made it to the Cape point nature reserve, here we donned the helmets and grab the bikes off the trailer and set off. It is a lovely, mostly self guided bike ride, with the guide meeting you at the major turns as well as letting you know the route a head of time. First left, then left again and then right – hard to to get it wrong right… 
It was all tarmaced, we did the extended route about 12kms, rolling up and own mini hills. Good bikes with decent sets of gears which made things easier. Other than one of the pedals coming off one of the bikes, we made it to the lunch stop. Well deserved.
Lunch was a spread not to be believed! It was fantastic, so much choice from salad to pasta to artisan bread, meats, cheeses and biscuits. Not to mention fruit that was then available all afternoon. A good filling lunch.
We headed to a small beach for a walk – the water is cold, and a rest after lunch, watching the Ostriches walk along the beach too, before we headed to the base of our hike. It is a good 40 min uphill hike to the lighthouse with awesome views of both sides of the continent. You can walk all the way to the end of Cape Point, it is all paved or gravelled, and relatively flat. Just depends on your time. There is a funicular for those that can not walk that far. At the base there is a shop and a restaurant for before or after.
After returning to the base we headed out for the second hike an hour walk along boarded walks, mixed with rocky outcrops. It is a flat walk, one thing about both of these is neither are well shaded, so make sure you have sunscreen, hat and plenty of water. On the walk to the Cape of Good Hope, there is a beach, Dias Beach, however the steps down to it looked too steep for us to risk it.
The end of the walk is a little scrambling – just a bit of a rocky climb to the view points, and the same back down to the parking lot The view from the top is amazing though. All blue for as far as the eye can see. You are at the end of the continent – where the two oceans meet!
After the climb down and all the necessary photos have been taken – don’t forget – selfie or it didn’t happen! We headed to Simon’s Town and the famous African Penguin.
If you walk onto the little beach by the parking lot and all along the board walk , you can see the Penguins. You can pay extra to go into the nature reserve to be able to get closer to the penguins. The penguins are everywhere you will see them without paying if you so wish. I should say Simon’s Town is accessible by train from Cape Town should you want to go down without a tour, it is a lovely little Victorian town with many shops and restaurants as well as the famous penguins.
Upon finishing with the penguins we headed back to Cape Town. This day trip is just fantastic! It is a busy and tiring day, but you only appreciate that upon returning and looking at the time! The day just flies, and disappears. You will take hundreds of photos have many laughs and lots of fun. Highly recommend!
Until next time traveller.
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