Cape Point is the 2nd southernmost tip of Africa. The most south one can get in Africa is a 3 hour drive to Cape Agulhus- where the two oceans (Atlantic and Indian) meet. I love Cape Point. It’s notorious for its tumultuous and responsible for some of the most infamous shipwrecks in the world. Stories have been written, songs sung, tales spun for hundreds of years about Cape Point. Ismael mentions it in his three years aboard The Pequod. I love that the southwestern portion of Cape Point possesses this cacophony of waves and wind and birds that drowns out anything immaterial going on in your head. And I love that to simply turn to the Southeastern path, a mere 20 steps away is almost completely silent, the waters so calm one can hardly believe it’s the same sea. I love the old lighthouse that now’s serves as a monitoring built on its highest peak 238 meters above sea level in 1859 because the “Cape of Storms” had developed such a reputation for its heavy fog, its rocks and its storms. And I love the lizards and flowers that call Cape Point home 🦎 🌸 Further down but in the same national park, there are turtles, zebras, ostriches, bucks, baboons… the wildlife here is breathtaking. So much life. So much history. So much beauty. My heart just swells for the perfection of Cape Point.