Look. It’s the SAS Amatola rounding Cape Agulhas on Operation CORONA.
Protecting our most southerly borders from invasion by… penguins?
Seriously, with almost 5000km of land borders, which potential illegal immigrant is seriously thinking that Cape Agulhas is the best way into SA?
A couple of things to sort out this morning, and then we’re off down to Agulhas for the first time since the fire incident a few weeks back.
First job, locate some beer and meat.
All the major food groups covered.
So not much for me yet say here except that I’m looking forward to a lazy weekend, and you should look in the usual places for photos etc.
I need to go and kick a football around in the silly African heat, so here’s a quick QP to keep the streak going.
I was sorting through some old images looking for a suitable print for a friend’s wall when I came across this one taken a few years back, in Agulhas.
Oooh. So ethereal!
More (and I really do mean more) tomorrow.
I was looking through some old images earlier when I found this one of a Suiderstrand sunset.
Obviously a lot has changed since this was taken back in December 2017. Not just in Suiderstrand (none of which you can see anyway), but in the world in general. Not even Cyril was in charge back when this was taken. Of course, there are some who would say he’s never really been in charge.
Anyway, rich, golden tones over the most very easterly bit of the Atlantic Ocean. And the lagoon somewhere down there too.
OK. Let me quickly fill you in a few details.
We abandoned Agulhas on Friday afternoon. There was no power, no internet, and little hope of either being restored anytime soon. We were lucky enough to have somewhere to go (home), the roads were open, and so we took the chance.
There was a lot of fire damage on the road back up to Bredasdorp, and the situation was too risky to pull over and take photos like we had done on the way down. But here’s an image from the car window of the same place that we got the second shot in this post.
So we’ve been home since about 7:30 pm on Friday evening, and the electricity was only restored to Agulhas at 6pm this evening: an outage of about 74 hours. That makes even loadshedding look like a minor inconvenience.
The fire is now contained:
Which is obviously great news for those who have had no power for three days, and for those whose property was threatened by the actual flames, rather than the lack of utilities.
As for us: a disappointing end to a few days away, but we’ll be back – hopefully for a less eventful visit – sometime soon.