Fabulous Fynbos

Our two days in Cape Town over, it’s time to start our journey north. 

We have a comparatively lazy morning - though there’s a degree of luggage sorting to do, before heading off towards the West Coast National Park via a soulless but handy out of town shopping centre to buy a few essentials.  

The main reason we decided to start our Namibian  journey in Cape Town was to see the spring  flowers as the Cape’s ‘fynbos’ blossoms into fields of colour. 
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Entering through the West Coast Gate, we drive north along a narrow strip of land sandwiched between lagoon and ocean. Right to the north is the Postberg Section, open to the public for only two months a year - August and September. It is just stunningly beautiful, carpeted in yellows, oranges and pinks as far as you can see. 

Individual specimens are gorgeous - often recognisable as flowers we now grow at home, but here growing completely wild.  Everywhere we look, the view is breathtaking. 

Tearing ourselves away, we make for the little fishing settlement of  Paternoster where we will spend the next two nights. We have a lovely room facing the sea, a path leading through the fynbos to the beach directly from our terrace. Of course, as this is  early spring, the light fades quickly, so we have a brief rest with the warmth of the sun pouring through the window before it’s time to go down to one of the local restaurants for our dinner. 

A weekend retreat from Cape Town, Paternoster is quiet on a Wednesday night out of season - and it’s cold. We rattle around in a near empty restaurant, amazed the door has been left open, though it’s closed when we ask! Despite all this the food is good - an excellent fish and chips for me and king-clip for G! 

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My main’s a collage of some of the beautiful wildflowers seen today, with wider views in extras.