A few weeks ago I was admiring the veggie patch behind our house when I noticed the red pepper plant had a leaf with another stray leaf resting on it...
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Cape Town
In a twist of oceanographical fate, a five metre swell with an 18 second period surged over one of the world's most beautiful big wave reefs. Twiggy Baker, John John Florence, Albee Layer, Frank Solomon, Mike Schlebach, Andy Marr, Simon Lowe and others were there to harvest the stoke.
Huge thanks to Steve Benjamin from Animal Ocean for taking me out there! Check out the video I filmed and edited featured on ZigZag.
It was Friday the 24th of May and the fog on the Atlantic seaboard was heavy. Steve predicted it would roll into the city and into Camp's Bay, so we headed up the mountain to search for a fresh perspective of our beautiful city. True enough, as the sun set and the land cooled, the fog rolled in boisterously under the full moon and the city disappeared.
Once upon a time there was a pair of rock kestrels that bred at Dias Beach in the reserve. That time is now and this season they laid four eggs (Anthony Van Zyl; pers. comm.). Last week I was lucky enough to glimpse one of the youngsters (photo below) all grown up and munching on a black girdled lizard (which are often seen sunbathing on the rocks).
Note: adults have grey head feathers whereas this is absent in the juveniles.
Peeling waves.
Paradisical beaches.
Kelp forest splashes.
Rock pool ramblings.
Fynbos frolicks.
Mountain ambles.
Wilderness, right on my doorstep.
