At the end of November I traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, for meetings of the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO). I was taken back by the beauty of the place. Really stunning scenery - not at all what I was expecting. It was spring and the air was sweet. Cape Town is a very modern city and the part of town I was staying, near the convention center and the upscale waterfront, made me think of San Francisco a little closer to the equator. But it had an unreal quality to it. One morning when I went running through some adjacent residential neighborhoods I noted every home was surrounded not by a fence but a wall. From my very limited time there I got the impression that the class dividing line was a chasm and the obvious prosperity of the place didn't benefit all peoples of that nation equally.
See my photo gallery, which focuses on the beauty of the place.
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