Pathways of the Sun

These are just some photos that I took while following in the footsteps of Dean Liprini, the guy who discovered a network of sacred sites on Table Mountain and other parts of the Cape peninsula and coastal areas of South Africa. You can check out this website, http://www.sunpath.co.za/, but it is terribly thin and little bit lame considering the subject (the book, 'Pathways of the Sun' is way better), which kept me on the mountain many weekends, searching for these difficult-to-find sites.

They are also shots of one of the most beautiful places on earth, in my opinion.

The Sentinel in Hout Bay

Like a postcard right? This is Dwarskerbosstrand on the West Coast

Lion's Head, Signal Hill, the City Bowl and in the distance Robben Island and the Atlantic Ocean. Taken from the saddle between Table Mountain and Devil's Peak, looking west.

The veiw to the east of the saddle, overlooking the southern suburbs and the Cape Flats. That's the Indian Ocean towards the top right-hand corner.

The 'Nefretiti' rock formation

Lion's Head through the gap in the above formation

An unexpected profile, or at least one that wasn't in Liprini's book.

The join at the Muizenberg dolmen

The view north of the dolmen, overlooking Muizenberg beach

The view south, looking across the Indian Ocean to Simonstown

Kalk Bay Harbour

A natural crack in the face of Table Mountain up through which a path is cut, named Platteklip Gorge. You can't see it in the photo but the cloud was actually being sucked down the gorge in a mesmerising spiral, something I'd never seen before. That's why I'm pointing like a dork.

This was just a magical day. It was cloudy, then sunny, hazy then clear, windy, then dead still and all the while light kept on breaking though in these magnificent curtains, which of course the camera does no justice to.

 

 

 

Another dolmen, this time on the face of Table Mountain. I know it just looks like a fallen rock, but this one is actually an 'official' site or, at least, it made it into Liprini's book.

Overlooking Camps Bay on the west coast of the peninsula