We made it around, we are tied up in Hout Bay, a small fishing village near Capetown.
We will post some more text later, but until we have had a shower, a meal and a few drinks to celebrate, here is a quote from a famous sailor:
In his book "The Long Way", Bernard Moitessier tries to express the significance to a sailor of the great capes:
"A sailor's geography is not always that of the cartographer, for whom a cape is a cape, with a latitude and longitude. For the sailor, a great cape is both a very simple and an extremely complicated whole of rocks, currents, breaking seas and huge waves, fair winds and gales, joys and fears, fatigue, dreams, painful hands, empty stomachs, wonderful moments, and suffering at times.
A great cape, for us, can't be expressed in longitude and latitude alone. A great cape has a soul, with very soft, very violent shadows and colours. A soul as smooth as a child's, as hard as a criminal's. And that is why we go."
