Monday 21^st July, 2014……Still in Cape Town and so exploring again……beautiful day, the weather has been good but today there is not a cloud in the sky so we are off to conquer Table Mountain…a young American girl at our accommodation took the cable car up yesterday and when she saw people struggling on the track she was glad she had made the decision not to walk up…..we went prepared as we still wanted to try but on arriving we took one look at the track and thought no way and also our knees are still recovering from yesterday….and so we took the Cable Car up….amazing…the cable car has a carrying capacity of 65 people, transporting roughly 800 people per hour…..speed, 10 metres per second, weighs 18 tonnes, height of Table Mt is 1,085 metres, the base of the cable cars have built in water tanks carrying 4,000 litres of water used for ballast in the windy season, the cars are round so they can rotate giving 360 degree views (the floor area rotates) they are also round for aerodynamics in high winds……and they have 2 big window openings….our guide told us not to fall out as they couldn’t save us!!!! We couldn’t have asked for a better day weather wise, no wind……we saw the notice saying they blow a hooter if the wind gets up and they try and get everyone down but sometimes you have to walk down if they shut the cable car down……we think many people would be stranded there if that happened as even fit ones struggled on the track…..our 2 fit Belgium boys walked down and they commented how difficult it was and they are 16 and 18 years old respectively!! And at the top we could have spent a day there…it is incredible the walking you can do on top of Table Mountain…..we had agreed to meet at the bottom in about 1 and ½ hour’s time so we tried to cover as many tracks as possible….it really is fabulous up there and if only we had known we would have opted for more time up there…..on the foot hills of Table Mountain Proteas grow wild and they really were a picture today in the sunshine……then we went to a market in down town Cape Town…..so much to buy…the crafts are great but we know we can’t carry anything with the long road ahead still…..and so we opted to come back to our digs and go to a café up the road, which has got to know us, as it is taking 2 hours to down load 27 photos!! M & F