If you’re planning to zoom off to Chapman’s Peak Drive on your visit to Cape Town (highly recommended), don’t forget to slow down just as you reach the far cusp of Hout Bay, and look to the rocks that act as a breakwater below the road.
What’s down there? Nothing less than Hout Bay’s talisman a bronze leopard watching over the waves. See if you can spot him!
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Great for spotting this Hout Bay gem, Ben! The statue was created by local artist, Ivan Mitford-Barberton around 1936, to commemorate the last leopard shot in Hout Bay in 1930. It looks so real, perched on the rock, that the locals know to slow down around that bend when behind a foreign-registration car! Most people think they have seen the real thing…:-)
Jason has a great photo of this on his photoblog, gosu.co.za!