Kite Corner

I got slightly sidetracked at Muizenberg on the way to the toilet and ended up in a kite shop...

Only my ingrained northern tightness stopped me from plumping for a top of the line carbon fibre afair but there seemed to be a model for every pocket - how you tell that your kite 25 meters above you has carbon rods i'll never know, but still it did set off a little bit of carbon lust. But still we spent considerably less and ended up with a pretty decent machine.

Easy to put together too as Nicky can vouch for demo'd...


And here's the bad boy in action..

More from Muizenberg

So I got a new lens for my G5, which has turned out to be a bit of a winner. It's a retro fit Ebay afair but acts as an x0.45 wide angle. It's a bit soft round the edges but not by anywhere as much as I was anticipating..

And you get those nice wide angle shots.

Sunday Shining

The sun was shinign so much we decided we had to go to the beach. I'd seen online that there was some organised get-as-many-people-on-a-wave-thing at Muizenberg so we thought it might be good to check it out..

The first Sunday of September sees the anulual event held in several countries to put as many surfers on one wave..

Current record is 77 aparently and some rumours on the day put the best efforts at 69.. Not bad going considering the line up was huge and everyone that counted had to be organised and catch the same wave.

Here's everyone heading into the water..


Nicky enjoying the sun


And the partial line up on one wave

Hermanus Hell

So we decided to head over to Hermanus as it's peak whale season and Hermanus seems to build it's entire economy on the fact that you can see whales whilst sipping your Café Latté..The result unfortunatly is a town so overrun with a sense of tourist money greed it makes the place quite unpleasant and puts you in a bit of a rage..

Anyway, we saw some awesome sea creatures..

Small


And not so small..


Oh and then when we got home we continued our video shop 4 DVD's for 40 Rand telethon with a very good Casino Royale and a not so good Aeon Flux..