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Lazy afternoon beach days
Many years ago, before people were aware of the danger of sun exposure, my dad used to spend many hours in the sun, sans sunblock - of course. He's in his 70s now and has to regularly visit his dermatologist regularly to have patches of skin cancer removed. Given the lesson I've learned from him, and all the attention the media has given to the relationship between sun exposure and skin cancer, I'm super cautious with the sun and find it surprising that so many people don't take it seriously.
Sure, my dad won't die from skin cancer, but it has to be darn annoying to have to get those patches treated every few months. Rather cover up, use sun block, don't tan too much, and save yourself a tremendous amount of discomfort later in life.
*This photo was taken on the blue flag Camps Bay beach.
Beautiful Lion’s Head
Mountains and beaches
Litter beach
Showering the beach
Enchanting clouds
If you visit Cape Town, and if the weather's right, you'll see a similar blanket of cloud covering the mountain. The weird and enchanting thing about the clouds is that they continuously descend from the mountain towards the earth but never seem to reach it. They billow over, almost like you'd imagine a witch's cauldron would. It's quite enchanting.
It’s just so beautiful!
You need to visit here.
It was a long winter
Lion’s Head from Camps Bay beach
Beach time
Early breakfast at a chilly Caprice
Volleyball and the beach
Run doggie, run!
See them run
People bathing in the sun, enjoying the picnic lunches they'd packed in, had to grab their belongings as quickly as they could and make a dash for higher ground. Fortunately the patch of sand on which I stood was slightly elevated, like a little island - so my feet, and sneakers, managed to stay dry.
Yes, it is true, I was walking on the beach in sneakers. :P
High tide
I'm sure the tide's been this high during stormy weather, but I've never seen it quite like this on a sunny beach day!
Winter beach weather
I could sure get used to warm sunny beach days alternating with cool rainy winter weather.
Just a ripple on the sand
An interesting apparition at Camps Bay
Anyway, all this is besides the point of this post's title. Isn't that an interesting apparition indeed? Any guesses as to what's happening in the photo?
Launching your kayak
The root cause of his troubles appeared to be his paddles getting caught up in seaweed and in so doing dragging the slimy green substance into the kayak, over his feet. That caused enough delay and distraction to allow time for the oncoming waves to push his kayak back against the shore, restarting the entire process of dismounting from the vessel, lining it up, hopping in and paddling like a frenzied cat in an icy pond of water.
I kinda wanted to cheer as on his fourth or fifth attempt he managed to break free and overcome the waves.
33 Minutes to dusk
Wrapping up beach season
If you made a resolution to spend more time at the beach this year, and if you've failed that resolution, then you have a few warm days left. Do what you need to do - make a plan - visit the beach - you're in Cape Town folks!
Peninsula trip “stop” 4: Camps Bay
Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles
Sunshine, then rain
This photo, with Camps Bay in the distance, was taken from Kloof Road, just above the well-known (and delightfully expensive, though very scenic) Round House Restaurant.
Camps Bay and Lion’s Head
Girl-friends at the beach
Cafe Caprice for lunch
I've been to Caprice several times for breakfast (the French toast is great) and for lunch a few times. Even though their burgers are acceptable, I'd recommend trying something else on the lunch menu, and I'd definitely recommend the breakfast menu. Besides for these, Caprice is the perfect place to enjoy drinks with friends on warm summer days.
Summer in Camps Bay
I took this shot from Kloof Road, just below where the famous Round House restaurant does business. This whole area has a huge number of short hiking trails that would be perfect as an early morning walk. I really wish that I could live in this area - besides for it being a beautiful area there would then be no excuse not to get regular exercise in the outdoors!
Table Mountain trip : A view of Camps Bay (5#10)
Slightly to the right of the view shown in my previous post is this perspective of the up-market suburb of Camps Bay. The houses (and especially the beach-front ones) are worth several million Rands.
After looking more closely at this photo I discovered a couple of interesting things that I'd like to draw your attention to:
- The streets and homes on the right side of the photo appear to radiate outwards, away from an open field or common. I wonder why that happened.
- Camps Bay High School is almost perfectly located - you'll spot it and it's large green rugby field on the right of the photo. If you click on the photo to zoom in you'll see it's beautiful blue swimming pool.
- Just to the left of Camps Bay beach, a little way off shore, is what appears to be a circular grouping of rocks forming some kind of natural pool out at sea. Has anyone noticed this before? Have you been there?