It gave us a snowy gift to remind us that it will be back next year.
Now we don't get so much snow like the mountains inland, but even this on our mountains makes the winds happy to spread the icy cold around. The news was that the famous Table Mountain in the city of Cape Town, was also covered with snow. A rare occurrence so late in the last throes of the winter season. When we arrived here in the countryside, we made the mistake of going for a ride on the cable car to the top of Table Mountain on a Friday in October (2019). But why a mistake? Well on a Friday, the traffic is horrendous, there were huge queues at the cable car offices, and it was on a special discount for South African citizens. So, we said to ourselves, never again under those conditions :)
Come and look at winter's snowy gift.
The rounded peak with the snow on it is called the "Dome", and it's the highest peak in the Hottentots-Holland mountain range.
A wider view of the snowcapped peaks.
Some random late afternoon shots below from different areas.
And oh yes, it was an icy wind that flowed all around us. There are other inland areas with higher mountains than this, and they are normally fully covered with snow as well as the low-lying areas around them. Maybe, we will take a drive up there so that I can show you what they look like during the snow period. Some years we have no snow down here, and they say it is because we are very close to the ocean, whereas the inland areas don't have that problem. Some of the mountains look like we are also up on a mountain, but I have a strong zoom, and so we drive out a distance from the mountains and then I take the shots on the zoom. South Africa is known as a hot country, and that is why the snow makes us so glad to see the snow. A few nights ago, the town of Sutherland in the Northern Cape, where they have the big telescopes, was -9 degrees Celsius at night and 3 degrees in the day. But now we are in the early Spring season, and things are starting to heat up quickly.
Such is life.
I hope you have enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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