It’s our 4th week in Cape Town and things don’t stop getting awesome. I’ve been doing a lot of awesome activities with my family. Although my day at the penguin sanctuary was awesome, my day at a big cats sanctuary and whale watching was also very awesome. My day started with me waking up at 6:00 am. It was not the funnest part of the day as you can imagine. Once my family and I got prepared, we took a very long, 2 hour car ride to a big cats sanctuary🦁located far away from Cape Town.
While we were there, the tour guide showed us very strange and native big cats that I have never heard of like black leopards and white lions. A cat I didn’t know existed before was a caracal. It has big black pointy ears and is very common in South Africa. All the cats had all been rescued from very bad conditions and were brought to the sanctuary to live the rest of their lives in peace🐆. Some were put in places were a person payed money to shoot a random lion and some were even kept as pets! People should never visit big cat parks that allow you too touch and care for the cats because the staff are really mean to the cats and they beat them up whenever a customer doesn’t get their way. The tourists aren’t trained in care-tacking and wind up doing something bad to the cat. The cats there reminded me a lot of my cat, Bruno, who acts a lot like them. They kind of look like him, too.🐈
After the big cats sanctuary, we drove downtown to a park with lots of cool sculptures. They were geometric and some represented humans doing cool stuff. Later that day, we went whale watching🐳! We rode in the water for an hour while we native southern right whales feeding and teaching their young how to swim. They were called the right whale because when whalers killed them, they would float instead of sink. Anyways, whales weren’t the only thing we saw on the tour. We saw dolphins in the water jumping up and down🐬🐬! They were really cute and we got really close to them. The catch(pun intended) of the trip was that it was really freezing and that there were big tides, which isn’t good for anyone seasick😖. But I haven’t told you about one of the best parts about that day. Remember Marvin from my last blog post? Well, there was a whole cluster of Marvins on a rock!! There were at least 16 of them and they were all munching on bits of grass and staring at us! It was a very fun day that couldn’t have been better.
