Table Top Experience – Trip Notes

]The most prominent feature in Cape Town is Table Mountain. As you fly-in at night it is the black void among the lights of over 4 million people in the greater Cape Area. In the daytime it is a visible mountain from anywhere in the region. It’s quite literally a large mountain plopped in the middle of a large city that ranked 110th of the world’s largest cities in 2008.

I had been waiting for the conditions to be right for us to go. Often the winds can be fairly high on top of the mountain or it is covered with a “table cloth” of clouds. Several times we had wanted to ascend to the top but chose to wait for better conditions.

A Near Perfect Day

Finally the weather became ideal for a trip to the top and Mattie McLaughlin (her husband, Dave, was the Chairman of SACM for many years) was going to join us.

After checking on the new container building’s progress we headed to the mountain. The sun was shining with calm winds.

We purchased our tickets and took the next available cable car to the top as we watched the ground grow distant.

A View Of The City

One of the first things I noticed at the top of the Table Top is that it isn’t smooth.Instead the top is rather non-table like except when viewed from a distance. Along the top are a shop and restaurant along with several scenic paths that span the mountain top. It is textured with beautiful rock formations and plants. There is wildlife and one such creature is the Rock Hyrax, a small rodent like creature able to scurry along the rocky cliff areas.

The most striking feature is its location. Such wildness is featured within the heart of a large population. Something lured some hikers into a false sense of security only to lose their lives while climbing the mountain.

The People Below

It was a thrill to see the mountain. Yet I was mindful of Moses on Mt. Sinai. What was going on in the hearts below? I felt a sense of so many people and the importance of our message-a message not for one group of people but for many different people of various languages and background.

Soon it was time to come off the mountain and do what we came to do-to teach others about their Creator and find those whose hearts had turned to Him and His son Jesus Christ. Soon we were on our way to teach the next group that evening.