Surprising Sundays

Not really knowing what to do on sunday we decided to head up the coast and check out the Atlantis Dunes. We'd heard that these were some quite impressive inland dunes.

We drove out to Atlantis which was in general terms a pretty grim place. Aparently when the residents were forcibly removed from the area of Cape Town knows as District 6 many were moved out to Atlantis resulting in an urban sprawl made up predeominsantly of semi shack semi prefab homes.

So we ariveded out at the dunes and learned that we needed to have bought a permit from the Water Board Office in Cape Town! Apparenly the palce is some form of water collection system. Luckily there was a guy running sand boarding classes who conveniently sold is the R9 permit each. Que light bulb...Sand boarding..the guy was pretty cool and told us know he was running a session an hour later and we could just jump on. So we heading into the dunes to have a walk before our first sand boarding session..

The place was completely mad like nothing we'd ever seen before. A massive expoanse of empty sand dunes which were actually quite disturbingly high in places. Lots of guys driving round in 4X4's, riding Quads and MX bikes - a tribute to every red neck petrol head obsession - all on top of the City water supply!! And a note on the 4X4 drivers. Some of them were particualarly moronic, rather than asking us to move out of the way they just drove right towards us requiring us the almost dive out of the way. A felt obliged to flip them the bird just to show my apreciation.







So now to the feature of the day..sandboarding...As most of you knwo, I like to think I know a bit about sliding or rolling on a board so fancied my chances some what. It actually worked out pretty well, Nicky got herself up and sliding and I whilst completely covering myelf in sand by 'rag dolling' a couple of times got the hand of it. Here's the evidence.

Go Nicky, go..


Super stylin'




Screw it, if I'm gonna hurt myself I may as well do it properly.