L'Agulhas: the southern most tip of Africa!

Read the Afrikaans side like a pirate, you'll sound really cool.

      L'Agulhas is super cool because as the sign above boasts, 'tis the the farthest south you can go on the African continent and it's where the Atlantic and Indian oceans meet. Our drive took us a bit longer than we anticipated and so we arrived just in time for the sunset and then didn't really get to poke around more because of our inability to see.

    L'Agulhas is also interesting because compass needles actually point true north, and this bit of coast is scary as far as currents and such go: it is estimated that at least 250 ships have crashed 'round about Cape Agulhas. There is also a lighthouse (that we didn't really go look at because of the night problem) and there is a museum about lighthouse stuff in it. Like most towns on this coast it is very sleepy in the off-season and the guide book described it like so: "the tip of the African continental shelf disappears undramatically into the sea" ouch, I think whoever was writing the review of the town must have had an ex-girlfriend who lived there. 

     We stayed in a town right next to L'Agulhas called Struisbaai and woke up to the most amaaaazing sunrise:

I think that Struisbaai may win for best sunrise, it was not only beautiful, but had the sound of waves and cool bits 'n bobs from the bottom of the sea that had been tossed up onto the shore.