Sundowners

The western edge of Cape Town, facing the Atlantic Ocean, is a series of upper-class residential neighborhoods cut off from downtown by the backside of Table Mountain. Although it's a bit of a hike to get there, it's popular to go there at nightfall and watch the sun set into the Atlantic.

The play of light on Table Mountain itself is fascinating, as you can see from these pictures, the first taken about an hour before sunset, and the second taken maybe 45 minutes later:


And the sunset itself is indeed beautiful:


It is the local custom to have a drink in one's hand while watching this; such drinks are called "sundowners," and that has become the name throughout South Africa for what we would call "happy hour."

We will be adopting the term "sundowners" for drinks served at nightfall at our Fire Island house forthwith ...