The boat ride out to Robben Island was very relaxing and only took about twenty minutes.
Robben Island has had many uses over the years. It has been a fort, a home to lepers and other terminally ill people, and a prison. It was here that Nelson Mandela made his home for his actions during the apartheid era.
Unlike Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, Robben Island is large and relatively flat.
When Mandela returned to the island while serving as president of South Africa, he visited the lime quarry where he spent most of his days working when he was a prisoner. He silently picked up a rock and placed it on this spot. Others that were with him followed his lead,
and the pile has remained to this day.
We wondered if we would see any of the penguins that we had heard about. There they were on a secluded beach far from view. Thank goodness for a telephoto lense.
Evidence that Robben Island is also used as a strategic defense location.
All missionaries will relate to this photo. It is so common to notice that people are looking at your name tag and it is a great way to start up a conversation.
Our guide was a political prisoner on Robben Island.
This is the actual cell that Nelson Mandela called home for 18 years.
Outside the prison.
Our ride back to Cape Town.
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