DebConf16/DayTrip/Signup

See the Main Daytrip page for further details.

Lovely people of DebConf: This is where you can sign up for the Day Trip! Please sign up for one of the below. If the size limit has been exceeded, you can add yourself to the waiting list and we will try to see if we can arrange something.

Robben Island (Cancelled - No Longer happening)

This trip is cancelled due to bad weather.
You might want to organise a trip to this yourself after DebConf if you have some time available - http://www.robben-island.org.za/
If your name is below, you might want to move it to another slot!

Robben Island tour sign up
#	name	#	name	#	name
1.	N.N. (local organiser)	2.	..	3.	Cyril Bouthors (cyrilb)
4.	RattusRattus@d.o	5.		6.
7.	Mrfai	8.		9.	pollo
10.		11.	Rhonda	12.	tobi@d.o
13.	Stephan Sürken	14.	...	15.	Gerhard Dittes
16.	Tomasz Rybak	17.		18.
19.	Mark Brown	20.		21.	neilm

Cape Point Nature Reserve and Boulders Beach - Penguins!

About a 50km drive each way, animals to be seen en-route. Most South-Western point of Africa. Take the Funicular/Walk up to the Light House. On the way back to CT, you can stop and see/walk with the Penguins, at Boulders Beach. This is the locals' recommended option! http://capepoint.co.za

• Fare collected on bus: R225 (R100 transport, R125 entry fee to Cape Point)
• Optional Costs (self-paid): R65 entry to Boulders Beach, Cape Point Funicular R58 (return price)
• Size limit: 120
• Time leaving from Fuller: 10:00am, two busses, Fuller parking lot.
• Tour duration: Expected back at Fuller 18:00pm
• Dress warmly with walking shoes

Cape Point Nature Reserve and Boulders Beach BUS ONE
#	name	#	name	#	name
1.	Daniel Lange	2.	Julian Andres Klode	3.	Matthias Klumpp
4.	Michael Meskes	5.	John Paul Adrian Glaubitz	6.	Ralf Treinen
7.	Lucas Kanashiro	8.	Lucas Moura	9.	Dominic Hargreaves
10.	Jonathan Wiltshire	11.	Niko Tyni	12.	Antonio Terceiro
13.	Carsten Schönert	14.	Chirayu Desai	15.	Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <paulliu@d.o>
16.	Apollon Oikonomopoulos	17.	Faidon Liambotis	18.	Lior Kaplan
19.	Mesut Can Gurle	20.	Josue Ortega	21.	Christian T. Steigies
22.	Guido Trotter	23.	Iain Lane	24.	Ritesh Raj Sarraf
25.	infinity0	26.	Lisa Baron	27.	Adam Barratt
28.	Vincent Bernat	29.	I'm an empty space, fill me!	30.	Maximiliano Curia
31.	Margarita Manterola	32.	Eugene Zhukov	33.	Michael Banck
34.	Sergei Golubchik	35.	noel@d.o	36.	Simon Kainz
37.	Andi Barth	38.	Andreas Henriksson <ah@d.o>	39.	Senthil Kumaran S (stylesen)
40.	Sven Bartscher <kritzefitz@d.o>	41.	James Cowgill <jcowgill@d.o>	42.	Didier Raboud <odyx@d.o>
43.	Keerthana Krishnan <contactkeerthana@gmail.com>	44.	Jaminy Prabaharan <jaminy02@gmail.com>	45.	Yaa Dufie <dapthy.yd@gmail.com>
46.	Aron Xu <aron@d.o>	47.	Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@d.o>	48.	Otto Kekäläinen <otto@d.o>
49.	Andrew Shadura	50.	Jimmy Kaplowitz <jimmy@d.o>	51.	axhn
52.		53.	Mathias Behrle <mbehrle@d.o.>	54.	Moray Allan
55.	Alba Crespi	56.	Philip Hands	57.	Julián Moreno Patiño
58.	Prach Pongpanich	59.	David Bremner	60.	Philipp Kern

Cape Point Nature Reserve and Boulders Beach BUS TWO
#	name	#	name	#	name
1.	Martin Krafft	2.	Mike Gerow	3.	Luke Faraone (possibly not; don't wait for me)
4.	Martin Michlmayr	5.	Raphaël Hertzog	6.	Sophie Hertzog
7.	David Janzso	8.	Dezso Denes	9.	Tomasz Buchert
10.	Dominik Szmek	11.	Kai-Chung Yan	12.	Deven Bansod
13.	Matthieu Caneill (matthieucan)	14.	Andreas Jochens	15.	Hugo Lefeuvre (hle)
16.	Bradley M. Kuhn	17.	László Böszörményi	18.	Valessio Brito
19.	Yukiharu YABUKI	20.	Tim Potter	21.	Sébastien Delafond
22.	Bdale Garbee	23.	Keith Packard	24.	Max Harmathy
25.	John Sullivan	26.	Bill Mills	27.	Stephanie Mills
28.	Karen Sandler	29.	Judit Foglszinger	30.	Andreas Bombe (aeb)
31.	Talat Batheesh	32.	Jeroen Dekkers	33.	Hideki Yamane
34.	Linn Crosetto	35.	gregor herrmann	36.	Kate Stewart
37.	Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)	38.	Lucas Nussbaum	39.	Mehdi
40.	James (@purpleidea)	41.	Mark Brown	42	Milan Kupcevic

Fairy Glen Safari

Safari Trip (Lion, Rhino, Elephant, Giraffe etc) 1.5 hours away, welcome drinks, lunch and Game viewing. A great chance to see Africa's Wildlife. NB: This was Acquilla safaries before but they have been hard to work with and Fairy Glenn is closer, nicer and got us a better deal. Also their game drive is at least one hour longer.

• Cost: R1150 (incl. shared bus cost)
• Size limit: 60
• Time leaving from Fuller: 06:45 (Yes, that is very early. You can sleep on the bus, and you get breakfast there).
• Tour duration: Expected to be back at Fuller by 18:30.

Fairy Glen Safari
#	name	#	name	#	name
1.	Jonathan Carter (local organiser)	2.	biebl@d.o	3.	Sven Mueller sven@d.o
4.	Tollef Fog Heen	5.	-	6.	Alexandre Viau
7.	Jose M Calhariz	8.	Jonathan McDowell	9.	Emilio Pozuelo
10.	Piotr Ożarowski	11.	-	12.	Luca Filipozzi
13.	-	14.	Fotis Tsamis	15.	Alkis Georgopoulos
16.	Foteini Tsiami	17.	-	18.	Wouter Verhelst
19.	Stéphane Blondon	20.	cate@d.co	21.	Sebastian Harl tokkee@d.o
22.	tobi@d.o	23.	Nattie Mayer-Hutchings	24.	Ben Hutchings
25.	Tammy Manning	26.	Michael Jeanson (mjeanson)	27.	Reiner Herrmann
28.	Andrew Shadura	29.	Madhura Jayaratne	30.
31.	Simon Désaulniers	32.	Roger Shimizu	33.	Stefano Rivera
34.		35.		36.
37.		38.		39.

Table Mountain via Cable Station and trip to Seal Island (Hout Bay), via Chapman's Peak drive

This trip is weather dependent.

The default option here is to take the cable car both up and down Table Mountain, followed by a trip to Seal Island in Hout Bay (via Chapman's Peak drive, rated as one of the most beautiful roads in the world.

• Cost: R400 (we have now included transport, sorry for the last minute price increase)
• Size limit: 60.
• Time that trip is leaving Fuller: 08:00 (have an early breakfast)
• Time that trip is leaving Cable Station en route to Seal Island for non-hiking group: 10:30
• Seal Island trip for non-hiking group: 11:30
• Expected time back at Fuller: 15:00

There is an option to hike up Table Mountain, take the cable car down and go to Seal Island, but this is a SEPARATE TRIP due to time and bus seat constraints (sign up in next section). Estimate time From Fuller to upper cable car 4 hours. This option also leaves Fuller at 08:00 and last minute swaps to the bus is allowed.

There is an option to hike from Fuller to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, which is the free option, see below.

Cable car up Table Mountain and seal island sign up
#	name	#	name	#	name
1.	Nicolas Dandrimont	2.	..	3.	...
4.	Solveig	5.	intrigeri	6.	OdyX
7.	Shirish	8.	Gunnar Wolf	9.	Tomasz Rybak
10.	..	11.	..	12.	..
13.	..	14.	..	15.	..
16.	..	17.	..	18.	..
19.		20.		21.
22.		23.		24.
25.		26.		27.
28.		29.		30.
31.		32.		33.
34.		35.		36.
37.		38.		39.
40.		X		X

Table Mountain Hike

This trip is weather dependent.

The route is flexible - see options at the bottom of the page.

• Cost: free ( with options: Cable car down R125, Seal Island option R60, R50 donation for transport would be appreciated)
• Size limit: none
• Time that trip is leaving Fuller: 08:00 (have an early breakfast)
• Time that bus is leaving Cable Station en route to Seal Island: 13:00
• Total trip duration: More than 6 hours.

indiebio is sick, and not hiking today. Kyle (paddatrapper) is the local organiser. You need to be a fairly competent hiker to do this. Bring good shoes, something warm, water, and some snacks.

Details (far) below.

Hike up and down Table Mountain sign up
#	name	#	name	#	name
1.	Kyle Robbertze (local organiser)	2.	Dieter Adriaenssens	3.	Tzafrir Cohen
4.	Aníbal Monsalve Salazar	5.	Ian Gilfillan	6.	Sicelo A. Mhlongo
7.	doko	8.	Kurt Roeckx	9.	Jens Reyer
10.	elbrus	11.	Julien Fortin	12.	Jelmer Vernooij
13.	Rossouw	14.	..	15.	..
16.	..	17.	..	18.	..
19.		20.		21.
22.		23.		24.
25.		26.		27.
28.		29.		30.
31.		32.		33.
34.		35.		36.
37.		38.		39.
40.		41.		42.
43.		44.		45.
46.		47.		48.
49.		50.		51.
52.		53.		54.
55.		56.		57.
58.		59.		60.

Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

Less than 10km drive from UCT. Indigenous plants, picnic vibes. Best viewed on foot, walk along the "Boomslang" Tree Canopy walkway, to get an ariel view of the Gardens. Paved Walkways and wheelchair friendly. http://www.sanbi.org/gardens/kirstenbosch/tree-canopy-walkway, http://www.sanbi.org/gardens/kirstenbosch/kirstenbosch-nbg-visitor-information

• Cost: R55 (or free if hiking from Fuller)
• Size limit: None
• Time leaving from Fuller: 10:00 (or link with Table Mountain group at 08:00)
• Duration of trip: Flexible, gates close at 18:00

Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
#	name	#	name	#	name
1.	superfly (local organiser) - hiking from fuller	2.	u - hiking from fuller	3.	lavamind - hiking from fuller
4.	LeLutin - hiking from fuller	5.	stevenc - hiking from fuller	6.	<name>
7.	Santiago - hiking from Fuller	8.	<name>	9.	<name>
10.	<name>	11.	<name>	12.	<name>
13.	<name>	14.	<name>	15.	<name>
16.	<name>	17.	<name>	18.	<name>
19.	<name>	20.	<name>	21.	<name>

Details for hiking up table mountain

There is not a size limit.

Map: indiebio has a hardcopy of the Slingsby map with her, these can be ordered online or bought in a few places. These are no longer free to download. OpenStreetMap version.

Cost: It is free, but with the option to come down via the cable station (R240 return, R125 one way), which then may need transport back, although hiking back is an option too. There is a restaurant at the cable station. Locals tend to think of it as a tourist trap. Cable car information (with up to date weather information): http://www.tablemountain.net/ Total distance: 16km? (to confirm) Total duration: approx 6 hours What to bring:

• Good shoes. The terrain is well laid out, with paths and steps, but it is uneven. Cross training or trail running shoes are good. It is doable with sandals but not recommended.
• Something warm. The weather can change very fast, mostly to a chilly mist (the 'table cloth').
• Water. There are river streams and puddles that are safe to drink from if you're the outdoorsy type. If not, or if you need a lot of hydration, bring a water bottle.
• Hat, sunglasses and camera if you want to.

Route: This can be decided by the group, there are many options, two are recommended: 1. Devil's peak option: The suggestion is to start outside Fuller, walk up to the tennis courts, then more up to Rhodes Mem, then more up to almost the block house, then swing left on the boardwalk, then up at Newlands Ravine. Then up. and more up. And then a bit more up. Then swing right and do a Swiss ascent upwards to the heavens, and just when you think you can't anymore, the most spectacular view opens up as you reach the tip of Devil's peak, at 1001m above sealevel.

Route option 2 images: http://hike-cape-town.blogspot.co.za/2011/09/hike-newlands-forest-to-newlands-ravine.html

2a. Maclear's Beacon, the highest point of Table Mountain option: Start outside Fuller, walk up to the tennis courts, then more up to Rhodes Mem, then more up to almost the block house, then swing left on the boardwalk, then either Skeleton Gorge or Nursery Ravine. Then up. and more up. And then a bit more up. Once at the top, swing left to Maclear's beacon, which is the rather underwhelming highest point of Table Mountain at 1087m above sealevel. From there one can come down the same way again, either back to campus or to the Botanical Gardens, or continue across the central table to the Cable station.

2b. Kirstenbosch via the Boardwalk (easiest): Start outside Fuller, walk up to the tennis courts, then more up to Rhodes Mem, then more up to almost the block house, then swing left on the boardwalk. Continue on the trail until the signs indicating going down to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, which is in the vicinity of Skeleton Gorge. Entry from this side into Kirstenbosch is not controlled, but you are expected to pay an entrance fee. From there one can walk back to campus or get a taxi (or bribe someone to come fetch you)

Documentation:

• http://www.tablemountain.net/content/page/maps-and-directions
• http://www.capetownmagazine.com/devils-peak
• Downloadable, poor quality map: http://www.gatewayguides.co.za/Gateway_Guides/Home_files/Table%20Mountain%20Guide.pdf
• http://hike-cape-town.blogspot.co.za/p/using-this-site.html