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Post by RyooT on Aug 22, 2012 13:22:42 GMT -5
Earlier this year a friend took me flying in a micro-light. It was an absolute treat to fly around the Cape Peninsula. I took this pic with my phone so I'm chuffed it came out well. Even the roof of my house is (just) visible in the picture :-)  What you see in the foreground is the Cape Town Stadium in Green Point that was built for the Soccer World Cup in SA in 2010. |
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Aug 22, 2012 13:43:30 GMT -5
How incredibly cool!!!!
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Post by RyooT on Aug 22, 2012 15:06:41 GMT -5
Wow! That view is amazing. That looks like a very neat place to live Thanks! It is an awesome place. As you can see - sea and mountains all in the same city. The white building you can see in the bottom right corner is right on the beach. We were actually flying along the shoreline and then later we turned and flew around Table Mountain (the mountain on the top left). I live at the bottom of Signal Hill - the hill in the foreground straight up from the stadium. |
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Aug 22, 2012 18:36:42 GMT -5
Like most Americans (embarrassed face), I know very little about South Africa. It really is cool to see pictures of places that you'll likely never get to see in real life.
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Post by brace4impact on Aug 22, 2012 18:41:17 GMT -5
I'd love to visit Cape Town to dive with great white sharks; so jealous
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Post by Ximena on Aug 22, 2012 18:53:03 GMT -5
Man that's beautiful.
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Post by lavly on Aug 23, 2012 4:51:37 GMT -5
looks so cool
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Post by RyooT on Aug 23, 2012 15:26:55 GMT -5
I'd love to visit Cape Town to dive with great white sharks; so jealous Hi B4I, I can hook you up there. One of my personal friends is the shark cage diving operator in Cape Town. I used to DM for him a long time ago. These are for you:    |
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Post by brace4impact on Aug 23, 2012 21:30:37 GMT -5
Damn that's awesome! Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 8:12:52 GMT -5
OMG you look a little too close to them for comfort.
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Post by RyooT on Aug 25, 2012 11:28:56 GMT -5
Nah, on a boat with a telephoto lens. ;-) The jumping shark was about 20m behind the boat attacking a decoy. In the other pics the sharks were pretty much directly next to the boat, but that is still plenty distance.
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Post by RyooT on Aug 25, 2012 11:55:09 GMT -5
Here is another picture from the flight. This was just before landing again. Straight ahead the famous Cape Town silhouette with Table Mountain in the middle and Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on the right edge of the picture.  |
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Post by oregonchris on Aug 27, 2012 8:15:46 GMT -5
What a breathtakingly beautiful place. Thanks for sharing these.
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Post by RyooT on Aug 27, 2012 13:10:13 GMT -5
And here is one from a different perspective. I took this pic from the top of Table Mountain ...  |
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Post by wonk on Sept 2, 2012 4:53:06 GMT -5
You're gunna need a bigger boat!
I know it's not cool to explain things like this, but hey, maybe some of the young'uns don't know this line
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