Rooikrantz to Buffels Bay on a cool day

Another cool day dawned, perfect for hiking down at Cape Point, with the teensiest threat of rain. A bank of clouds on the far horizon looked as though it would pass harmlessly by, and only a slight northwester blew over the plateau as we drove up to the small parking area above Rooikrantz, famed for its fishing spot down on the ledges where intrepid and very fit rod fishermen spend most of the summer casting for yellowtail. Our route was down the rocky path heading north towards Buffels Bay and we were grateful for the cloud cover once in the lee of the Peninsula, as the November sun is already fierce by 9.30. The current low pressure over Cape Town is keeping the sea glassy on both sides and making conditions ideal for all kinds of watercraft - skiboats, Kalk Bay fishing boats, sport fishing boats perhaps looking for tuna, and a couple of kayakers with rods fixed at the back (a new mode of fishing for those not able to lay out the kind of cash needed for more traditional vessels).
No whales, dolphins, seals or seabirds were in evidence, so perhaps it wasn't a great day for fishing, and the only wildlife we saw on our very pleasant hike along the seashore was a lone dassie and a family of ostriches.
Tea and sticky buns were partaken of, perched on comfortable slabs of rock that are typical of the geography here, and we weren't even disturbed by the local troop of raiding baboons, who must have been occupied elsewhere. Perhaps if we had been cooking boerewors they would have materialised from the thickets of milkwood behind us, as they do on summer weekends when Buffels Bay is a hive of activity with picnickers being a huge drawcard.
The long walk up the road from the beach to the visitors' centre was accompanied by a cooling headwind and just before reaching the cars, we were treated to a sighting of a small herd of bontebok with two babies (bontebokkies?) - something really special.
From time to time, a few drops fell from a grey cloud overhead, but in the main the rain fell on either side of us (strange how that happens), and all agreed that it had been an extremely pleasant, temperate and not onerous hike - it's not always that way!