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At THE CAPE of GOOD HOPE...

 

 

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I LOVE THE SEA!!!

Under ALL circumstances, whether wild or calm...

 

What power here, SPECTACULAR, thunderingly beautiful and somehow frightening!

I grew up by and with the sea and NEVER underestimate it!

 

This here is Paul at that most Southern point of the Cape, still the Atlantic Ocean.

The Cape of Good Hope (Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop, Dutch: Kaap de Goede Hoop), is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

 

A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa.

 

This misconception was based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

 

Contemporary geographic knowledge instead states the southernmost point of Africa is Cape Agulhas about 150 kilometres (90 mi) to the east-southeast.

 

The currents of the two oceans meet at the point where the warm-water Agulhas current meets the cold-water Benguela current and turns back on itself.

 

That oceanic meeting point fluctuates between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point (about 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) east of the Cape of Good Hope).

"Cape of Good Hope" named thus because of the great optimism engendered by the opening of a sea route to India and the East.

 

I wish you all a very good day and thank you for all your kind words, time, comments and likes. Very much appreciated.

 

Magda, (*_*)

 

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"Paul Indigo", photographer, people, male, "Cape Good Hope", "Nikon D7000", "South Africa", colour, "Magda indigo", rocks, sea,Atlantic, spray, vertical, waves

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