Day 159: Liesbeek River, originally uploaded by Craig is shooting.

It looks like the river has just been cleaned (probably just before the world-cup). But look how clean and still it is. Just behind the river is the grounds of the Observatory, and the mouintain you are looking at is Devil’s Peak.

The peak got its name from the story of a Dutch man called Jan van Hunks, a prodigious pipe smoker who lived at the foot of the mountain around 1700. He was forced by his wife to leave the house whenever he smoked his pipe. One day, while smoking on the slopes of the peak, he met a mysterious stranger who also smoked. They each bragged of how much they smoked and so they fell into a pipe-smoking contest. The stranger turned out to be the Devil and Van Hunks eventually won the contest, but not before the smoke that they had made had covered the mountain, forming the table cloth cloud. (Wikipedia)