Durban to Cape Town via Port Elizabeth (with roundings of Cape Agulhas and Cape of Good Hope)
Tuesday 11 th February, Cape Town, South Africa. Woke to a beautiful, calm sunny morning here in Cape Town with a lovely view of Table Mountain behind the marina. A little different from last night's dark, windy and honestly pretty hairy arrival. We were lulled into breaking our (not particularly hard and fast if you remember Darwin) rule about not coming into strange places in the dark by an ETA that was enticingly close to sunset and a more tempting prospect than bobbing around aimlessly off the coast for ten hours waiting for sunrise. And, as Karl noted, it was a full moon – practically daylight! And a lovely Canadian couple we knew from Durban had called to say they'd be waiting at the dock to take our lines. What could possibly go wrong? Well, The Universe decided to dim the lights and turn up the wind to 25-30 knots at the exact moment we entered the big, maze-like Cape Town port. Blindly (literally) following the GPS from one basin to the next, me on the