After a long day of walking and our first tour of Cape Town, we divided to take the tram up Table Mountain. Mom had told us to bring our big puffy coats, because that last time she had been up here when she was in college it had been freezing for her. But that was not the case with this trip. It was actually quite warm and sunny. The view was very clear and gorgeous. I loved the cool wind and the endless miles of view across God’s great landscape.
Some history that were on the sign on Table Mountain said this:
“As early as 460 million years ago, huge rivers from the the north carried silt and mud, sand and pebbles down onto a broad coastal plain that existed here.
Over the next 100 million years the accumulated into sediments thousands of meters thick. As pressure and temperature grew, corse asand and pebbles were gradually cemented, layer upon layer, in extremely hard Table Mountain Sandstone.
This sandstone’s residence to enrich is what gives the Mountain its sheer-sided rugged Typograph, compered to fees psych as Signal Hill, comped mostly of after Malmesbury Shale. But even now, this rock is being slowly chiseled away, one grain at a time, by rain fall and agents of erosion such as lichen, creating the fantastic natural rock sculpts you see all around you; it is estimated that it will take another 10 million years to wear this mountain down to the very sand from which it was made. “