The Cape of Good Hope is not the southern most point in Africa, that honor goes to Cape Agulhas about 90 miles east where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet. First named the “Cape of Storms” by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 and later renamed by John II, the king of Portugal, as Cape of Good Hope because of the great optimism of this sea route to India and he East.
Still very exciting to me, Cape Point is the southern most point in Table Mountain National Park which also includes the Boulders Penguin Colony, Silvermine, Table Mountain, Signal Hill and Lions Head.
It is a wonderful thing when we can see the places in person that we learned about in school?
A living history lesson for sure.
That is a turbulent sea.
The Cape of Good Hope sometimes disappoints people after seeing the magnificence of Cape Point but its still one of the most popular spots in the Cape to have your photo taken.
I haven’t been to Cape Point, yet.
I love it when I find myself at the X-est point of somewhere. Makes me feel unique, standing there with no one around!
I’m not a boat person, so I’m glad I never had to cross that ocean.
I’m with you on the boat part. But unfortunately I wasn’t the only one there.
Ever since I learned about the Cape of Good Hope in elementary school, I’ve wanted to see it. I have no idea what it was that interested me so in it, but I’d still like to go there. *sigh* Perhaps in another life.
There’s always time to buy a ticket.
I remember learning about Cape of Good Hope in grade school — must have been the only day I didn’t have that comic book hidden in my Geography text. What a beautiful picture.
A place most of us remember from our history/geography classes, if we were listening. I’m sure I wasn’t.
Oh no another myth shattered. All this time I have believed that the Cape of Good Hope was the southern most point. That will teach me to believe everything I was told in school. Is Cape Point on your up coming schedule???
I hope to get to Cape Point this time. Will see.
Another interesting vantage point.