Monday Geology Picture: Snow in South Africa

Snow way on the top of mountains in South Africa’s Cape Fold Belt, June 2013. Click to enlarge the picture for a better view of the snow.

Here’s something you don’t see every day: snow in South Africa! In late June my husband and I drove from Cape Town to Robertson, South Africa to visit my husband’s grandmother. It had been fairly cold and rainy in Cape Town for much of June. As we were driving through the mountains of the Cape Fold Belt, we noticed that there was snow on the tops of some of the mountains. We snapped a couple of pictures, including the one above, as we drove past the snow-capped South African peaks.