Climbing Table Mountain

Table Mountain is just over 1km high (3,558 feet). From the Breakwater Prison we could see the cable car and nicknamed it “Tinkerbelle” from its flights up and down the mountain.

However, it seemed more adventurous to climb it on foot using the Platteklip Trail which starts a little further up the Tafelberg Road from the lower Cableway Station. Much of the track followed a stream gorge with the early wooded section giving way to Cape Fynbos.

Photo Gallery: the path up Table Mountain…

On reaching the summit area we walked across to Maclear’s Beacon as marking the highest point, then back to the café at the upper Cableway station. I can’t remember meeting anyone else on the Platteklip Trail but there were plenty of people who had come up by cable car.

Photo Gallery: Views from Table Mountain…

Back in Southampton we had only recently been provided with wheelie bins so we were amused to find that they had already arrived at the top of Table Mountain. Sadly, while we were at the café the cableway was closed for a period while a dead body of a young man was taken off the mountain, I think he had fallen on the cliffs.

Photo Gallery: On the Summit and going down…

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