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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.
The next day, unexpectedly and fortunately, the weather had changed for the better, and I decided on a renewed effort to see more of the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. Taking the nice drive through Hout Bay, where the road to Noordhoek was unfortunately blocked, I explored some of the parts of the park, seeing lots of wildlife on the way, before reaching Cape of Good Hope again. On the way south, I saw a bright rainbow over the sea in a distance, contrasting against an almost black sky, and fantasized about the possibility of seeing one right over Cape Point. But before going there, I stopped at the Cape of Good Hope, where enormous waves were battering the rocks on the coast with their relentless power. As a human being, one feels totally powerless and small compared to this force of nature, and I thoroughly enjoyed the spectacular play of crushing waves, a strong wind blowing the tops of the waves into the sky, and the explosive eruption-like effect whenever a wave met with one of the huge rocks right off the coast. But I still had my rainbow fantasy, left the Cape of Good Hope behind and drove the last stretch to Cape Point. While other people were running down, escaping the rain that had started to pour down now, and on their way to make it to the exit of the park in time, I was frantically running up - wondering what I would see from the top. When I finally looked over the edge, I screamed in awe at what I saw. A perfectly round rainbow formed a perfect viewing window of Cape Point in its middle. This scene was so magical - I somehow hoped it would last forever. As I continued looking down, the rainbow grew even more intense in colours, and a secondary rainbow appeared around it. The rainbow stretched from one side of the cape to the other. Gradually, as the showers receded, the rainbow slowly dissolved into the cloudy skies, still giving a mysterious touch to this mythical place. When I eventually walked down to make it out of the nature reserve on time, I was totally elated by the beautiful natural phenomenon I had just seen.
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