The recent storm left a huge trail of destruction behind it, and clean up efforts are underway all over the Cape. Some bits will take longer than others.
There are roads washed away and there is farmland still underwater.
But all of that water has to go somewhere, and obviously, quite a lot of it ends up in the sea. Along with, it seems, quite a lot of the Western Cape:
That’s Table Bay, and Robben Island. And that is the outflow from Diep River, which drains from the Durbanville Hills and the West Coast suburbs of Cape Town.
If ever there was a plan to do some land reclamation in Table Bay, this is the time to start. It’s already half finished.
You can see the little plume of non-silt filled water popping out from the Black River, down south, but that’s nothing compared to the mess that’s been dumped from the north.
Anyone in Cape Town with a chainsaw and a bakkie has been doing snow angels in R100 notes all week. Seeing this, I suspect anyone with a dredging vessel (probably slightly more niche, I know) is probably doing the same.