Cape Town, South Africa - Mediclinic, Waterfront

Three weeks of camping done and dusted, today we are headed for Cape Town. Mixed emotions as we've heard awesome things about The Mother City, yet sad to say goodbye to the nomadic camping lifestyle, surprisingly.

We see our first sign of Cape Town about half an hour out of the city: the highly anticipated Table Mountain. It's huge! Do believe the hype.

Cape Town is a city of contrast and we are smacked in the face by this immediately. It is a mix of wealth and poverty, natural beauty and gritty, ugly industry.

BMWs, Audis and Mercedes are seen everywhere you look - contrasted by kilometers and kilometers of "informal housing settlements" (slums) made of corrugated iron.

Table Mountain and it's accompanying peaks are breathtaking. They cradle the city and offer a view for 180 degrees. The other 180 are industrial docks with cargo ships in the harbour.

We arrive at our hostel by lunch and check in to our shared dorm. Our last included activity for the trip is a township tour. We unfortunately have to miss this, at Courts insistence that Jeff gets his elbow seen to.

We head up the road to the Mediclinic and ask to see a doctor. The lady at reception gives a bit of a gasp and exclaims we need to go to emergency, it looks like a bite of some sort. Jeff assures her the elbow has been like this for a week, emergency room not necessary. This where the doctors are at though, so off to emergency we go.

We see the doc after a bit of a wait. He does the usual checks, tries to drain the arm and takes a sample of the fluid. Doc thinks it's a skin infection, due to the swelling and slight fever, but needs to send the sample off for analysis. Jeff gets some antibiotics and we're told to come back in two days for the results. We feel... slightly optimistic?

We head back to the dorm, round up the crew and head out to the waterfront for dinner.

The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront is pretty touristy, but you can't really get dinner and drinks over-looking the water wrong. We eat at Mitchell's brewery, take a ride on the Ferris wheel and head back. We say goodbye to our truck crew, wish them well on their next tour (practically back to back) and head to bed.