Every day, I am blown away by the beauty of the mountain.
(When it’s visible and not hidden behind shedloads of dark grey cloud, obviously.)
This was from my drive home tonight.
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Pedants (you know who you are):
This doesn’t count as a quota photo because I’ve already posted today.
Twenty-four little hours.
Brought the smoke and the fires.
Where there used to be green.
Before and after – The Devils Peak Fire
Houses in High Cape and Vredehoek (where I used to live) were evacuated at 1 o’clock this morning as high winds threatened drive the fire into residential areas. Spectacular iol pictures.
Today, it’s just a matter of damping down what’s left of the vegetation and putting out the fires in the kloofs on the Groote Schuur Estate. Just for an idea of scale, those three “little” fires you can see up at the top of the mountain have flames up to five storeys high according to the Cape Town Fire Department spokesman on the radio. S’big, then.