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Back to it tomorrow

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Still reeling a bit from a week away, and all the admin and work that greets you on your return home. A lot of clothes washing, a lot of removing the Breede River Valley from my car. Just an all around catch up.
But I think we’re just about there now. Although, I’m just about to go away for another 4 days, so maybe I’ll have to do it all again next week.

On the plus side, I will have a safer car to get there in, having had some nice wheel alignment done this morning. Always equal parts reassuring and concerning when you can very much tell the difference.

So let me leave you with a nice quota photo of the Breede River at sunset.

Almost makes you want to go back.

Which you can’t, because we were the last public group on this camp. And Felix Unite on the Breede is very much no more. Sad.

2017 Sunset

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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.

Quick sunset shot

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Busy morning, and we’re off to Stellies for some wine tasting this afternoon, so herewith a very quick denoised sunset shot from the weekend in Agulhas.

I’ve been doing some rudimentary calculations, and I’ve worked out that the image above isn’t going to win any awards. What is is going to do is serve as a quota photo for today’s blog post – just in case things get messy later.

Which, given the amount of wine involved, they may well do.

Caught short

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It’s the shortest day of the year in Cape Town (and elsewhere in the global south too, obvs).

That means sunrise at 0751, sunset at 1744 and just 9 hours, 53 minutes and 31 seconds of daylight today. That’s 1 second shorter than yesterday, and 0.65 seconds shorter than tomorrow. It might not seem like much, because it’s not, but these things do get measured and those are the numbers.

Make plans now. Don’t waste your 0.65 extra seconds of daylight tomorrow.

Of course, that means that it’s also the longest day in the Northern hemisphere, and from tomorrow, the nights will be closing in as they head inexorably towards winter.

This year, this fact is actually rather annoying, given that we’re heading up to the top half of the world very shortly. But still, because we’re staying (generally) to the west side of their time zone, and because we’re staying (exclusively) a lot further north than Cape Town is south, we’re still going to have some lovely late evenings.

In fact, sunset on our second night in Ireland will only be at 9:58pm. Sunset has never been anywhere near that late in Cape Town.

It’s been a long, hard winter so far, and we’re not out of the woods just yet.
But hey, South Africa: summer is just around the corner.