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This picture shows Waves hammering the rocky coast at Cape of Good Hope. It was taken on a travel to Cape Point, South Africa, Africa. It is one of the 8138 of travel photographs you can find on Traveladventures.org. You can click on the picture to see more pictures of Cape Point. You can also send it as a free electronic postcard or download it for free, by following the links under the picture. Alternatively, you can follow the tags under the picture to find other travel pictures of a particular theme, or switch to another language. Enjoy your travel with pictures from all over the world!
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Two spectacular and beautiful capes are within an easy day trip from Cape Town and offer wild waves crushing on the rocky shores, sweeping views over the surrounding ocean, two lighthouses, and beaches.
There are actually two capes close to each other: Cape Point which is the southernmost tip of the peninsula, and the Cape of Good Hope, which is the westernmost and probably better known tip. Contrary to what is widely believed, these capes are neither the southernmost point of Africa, nor the division between the Indian and Atlantic Ocean; Cape of Good Hope is the southwestern most point of Africa. Even so, nature here is wildly spectacular, and the views awesome. I walked down to the viewpoint of the new lighthouse, opened in 1919 at Dias Point on the rocks right off Cape Point itself after it was realized that the old lighthouse, established on top Cape Maclear in 1860, was not visible in the dense fogs that can obsure sight at these points. In fact, quite many ships were shipwrecked on these shores over the last centuries - one of the most famous the Flying Dutchman, which is supposed to still sail around these areas and whom some have claimed to have seen. The Capes were first rounded by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488 - he called it Cape of Storms, but the king later optimistically renamed it Cape of Good Hope for the prospects of having found a new route to India. The walk to Dias Point is certainly worth the effort, and brings you close to the new lighthouse and the merciless waves crushing the rocky shores. While I walked to Cape of Good Hope, though, the sluices of the sky finally opened and I got completely soaked in a matter of minutes. The view from the top of the Cape was awful under these conditions, with a very strong wind sending streaming cold rain over me from all directions at once - or so it seemed. The weather would not recover for the rest of the day.
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