Cape Town Mission Field 

10 March 2018
Day 91
Saturday


Today was our long range trip to Hermanus for boarding inspections there. First we had to swing by the office and pick up 2 bikes for the Somerset Elders that wanted them since their car had to go into the shop yesterday (prematurely). We dropped them off and headed to Hermanus, we saw more baboons along the highway over the top of the pass.
We first stopped at the auto repair shop in the same building as the chapel to pay for some work on the Elders car. We then met the Patriarchs wife outside the Elders boarding to give her a letter for the Patriarch from Church Headquarters that we received at the Mission Office.
We then visited with the Elders and saw that they are keeping their boarding in very nice condition. Elder Gibbons has been there at Hermanus for quite some time, several months as I recall. He showed us some brochures for a couple of potential hikes at some gardens/nature reserves in the area that we wanted to hit. We invited them to lunch but they had some pressing appointments to keep. 
We made our way into town and parked at the sea shore and walked down to the beach to a restaurant located on the cliffs by the bay. It is called Bientang's Cave restaurant named after the native that was found living in the cave at the time white men began immigrating into the area. We shared a wonderful sea food platter right on the rock on the bay. This is the favorite spot for whale watching during the season between June and October. The owner said the whales come right up close to the sea shore and spray and breach the water. The spray is in the shape of a "V" because of their notched blow hole. Whalers looked for that distinctive spray so they could announce the "right" whale during pursuit. Thus the name stuck and they are called the Right Whale.

After lunch we had to cancel our hike for the day and return to the Elders and pick up the Somerset Elders boarding key that they left that morning during exchanges and return to Somerset West to allow the Elders to gain entry back into their flat.
The rest of the day was turned into a boarding deep cleaning day.

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  1. UnknownMarch 24, 2018 at 9:38 AM

    Wow, love the local stories and info and the food looks fabulous.

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