On top of Table Mountain

CAPE TOWN

England is doing a press conference later tonight here, so it was a morning for playing tourist. Sunny, 17C - perfect for the Table Mountain cable car. Some images:

The view from 1,067 metres up. Green Point Stadium is in the middle, near the shore, and off to the left and out to sea is Robben Island.

A dassie lounges in the sun. A bunch of the badgers sat on a rocky outcrop directly below the Twelve Apostles Terraces. "Rock rabbits" was how the Aussie from Brisbane described them. 

After a 70-minute wait in line, an Algerian family waves the flag ahead of Friday's game vs. England.  

A couple of lads have come all the way from Sheffield for this. Even slightly out of focus, that's impressive.