Day 12 - Luke's Birthday

    I cannot believe Luke is 17! He is getting so old! For his birthday he wanted to go to Cape Pointe. This includes: penguines, Boulder Beach, hiking and shipwrecks. Our first stop was Boulder Beach. We walked along the beach and climbed, you got it, boulders. This beach is famous for the African Penguines, which were everywhere. We were inches away from the penguines, but we still had to be careful they didn't lunge at us with their sharp beaks.

   Continuing our journey to Cape Pointe, the most southwestern tip of Africa, we drove and entered into the national park. We walked up the steep hill to where the lighthouse was located and could see the ocean going on forever! It was a gorgeous sight and it was hard to believe that we were standing at the furthest tip of the African continent!

 Directions of where major cities are at

 Mma's photo bombing

The most southern tip of Africa

   Our last destination of the day was driving down to where the beginning of the trail which would take us to the shipwrecks on the beach! We walked 45 minutes one way and happened upon the first shipwreck sight. It was so fascinating to see pieces of the Thomas Tucker ship from 1942. We continued down the beach, with the roaring waves and the large amounts of seaweed to our right and the sand dunes to our left, and made our way the second wreck sight. This ship had been buried deeper into the sand over the last few months, when my family had last visited.

   After a long and exhausting day we ended Luke's birthday with a Chicken Pot Pie dinner and an African version of ice cream cake (ice cream in the shape of a cake). 

 We collected candles around the house to use for Luke to blow out