Old Cape Town
Isn’t it crazy how much Cape Town has changed over the years? This view of Cape Town (from the harbour) shows Table Mountain on the left and Lion’s Head on the right. The road that you see stretching across the water, into the city, is Adderley Street – our cities main road.
Take a look at these two photos that I grabbed from Google Earth – they show a modern version of the same view as the main photo. You’ll notice that although Adderley Street still leads to the harbour area, it no longer allows direct access to the harbour, and the bridge that use to extend over the water has long since disappeared.
Nice photo! In fact, if the pier were still there today it would actually be “in” Adderley street because most of the foreshore is recalimed land. In the good old days the sea went right up to the Castle, meaning the pier would be on land today and not in the harbour.
Mark, I still find it weird to think how much of the land we’ve reclaimed over the years. What’s odd that I’ve found shells even up against Tygerberg Hill – perhaps there was more reclamation that we think!