Cape Town, South Africa

These were shot in Cape Town and the coast around it. From the city you can drive in almost any direction and end up somewhere worth stopping: over Chapman's Peak to Hout Bay, down the peninsula to the penguins at Boulders Beach, or up Table Mountain for the view back down over the city.

What's in the gallery

Hout Bay harbor: a man cleaning fish on the quay with the yacht marina behind him, another leaning down to a seal at the water's edge, and the takeout stands along Mariner's Wharf. Chapman's Peak Drive and the Atlantic coastline below it. African penguins on the rocks at Boulders Beach. The Ferris wheel at the V&A Waterfront, Table Mountain under storm clouds, and the city spread out below the cableway. And everyday Cape Town: a blue corner café on a street under the mountain, two boys in a field of wildflowers, people walking a roadside, a sunset on a rocky beach.

During the same trip we visited Masiphumelele, home to many of the children at the school where we were helping. See Masiphumelele, South Africa and a day trip to Buffelsfontein Game Reserve.

Two people standing on a rocky beach at sunset beneath steep mountain cliffs on the Atlantic coast near Cape Town
Man cleaning fish on the quay at Hout Bay harbor, sailboats and mountains behind him
Two boys walking through a field of yellow and purple wildflowers outside Cape Town
Man leaning down to a Cape fur seal at the water's edge in Hout Bay harbor
Muriel's Munchies takeout stand and Mariner's Wharf under the mountains in Hout Bay
Atlantic coastline and steep green mountainsides along the Cape Peninsula
Cars on Chapman's Peak Drive, the road carved into the cliff above the ocean
Woman sitting on the rocks near a colony of African penguins at Boulders Beach
Two people on red sandstone rocks above a rough sea on the Cape Peninsula
cape-wheel-table-mountain.jpg The Cape Wheel at the V&A Waterfront with Table Mountain in the background
Two people walking beside a road below a green hillside in Cape Town
Table Mountain wrapped in storm clouds, seen across open grassland
Blue Protea Café and corner shops on a Cape Town street with the mountains behind
African penguins on a boulder at Boulders Beach, a lighthouse out in False Bay
View over Cape Town's city bowl and harbor from the Table Mountain cableway
Red Bayside Halaal Takeouts stand on the harbor under stormy skies
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