Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa. Its central area has a magnificent background featuring a flat-topped mountain called Table Mountain. And the table even has a tablecloth sometimes, consisting of clouds formed directly above it by moisture that condenses when a wind blows up the mountain’s slopes into colder air. Tourists can either climb up the mountain or take a cable car.
Now Cape Town, and especially Table Mountain, has one of the highest levels of diversity of … You thought I was going to say humans, but no! It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity, and also THE highest concentration of endangered PLANT species, in the world. Many of its species can be found nowhere else on earth. Altogether there are more than 8,000 plant species, of which around 80% are fynbos, meaning fine bush. Of course, unlike those tourists, when most of US go looking for fine bush, we’re thinking of something else.
Something NON-veg! And NON-plant based! Not betwixt the limbs of trees, but human limbs! And are hoping to do some MOUNTING rather than climbing.
Anyway, according to local legend, the mountain’s tablecloth symbolizes a smoking contest between the devil and a local pirate. But I think whoever came up with this story was probably doing the smoking himself! That’s much more likely!