I was asked by the family where I wanted to go and be treated to lunch. ‘We haven’t been to the Durban beachfront for a while. The grandkids and I can take bikes,’ I suggested.
And so it was. Throngs of pedestrians and other cyclists didn’t make the wide promenade crowded, and we had great fun seeing the scenes. I just regretted not having brought along a bathing costume – plus, perhaps my paddle-ski. With the school holidays coming up, perhaps we can go a bit more often. The bicycles gave a lot of fun, anyway, and then followed a typical fast-food meal.
Anyway, I thought I should get these pictures in today, to demonstrate the awful hardships we suffer during our winters here. Yes, all those specks in the water near and far are people swimming – or, at least, standing up in waves so that they can get knocked over by them.
Sand sculptures. The artist asks for a donation to photograph them.
Durban’s south beaches seen after cycling to the end of a long pier.
Water nidget! All the ones of bikes and kids etc, I took on the closup setting!
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Wow, great sand sculpture!
What a beautiful day, I can’t believe it’s winter.
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Isn’t it marvellously done?
Of course, weather-wise, appearances are deceptive. Today still LOOKS like that, but there is a distinct chill in the air!
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Durban’s beachfront’s looking good.
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lovely day and so lucky to have the sun 🙂 we didn’t do too badly in Cape Town, but not warm enough to take the old jacket off
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Much less consider swimming or surfing?
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The sand sculpture is amazing!
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It actually makes me uncomfortable that something so amazingly done is so impermanent.
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A lovely way to spend Father’s Day. I shall download those pics and look at them often. That sand sculpture is gorgeous and well worth paying for to get a picture.
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How brave of you to venture out in such awful weather C!
😀
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Oh, it was, it was! And to keep up with a seven-year-old on a bicycle (well, slow down for her, anyway) – it all deserves a medal!
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Our summer solstice and not a blink of sun to be seen all day! My brother in Melbourne often teases me with winter photos all called ‘Spot the cloud!’, not you are at it.
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A great Father’s Day treat. I’m envious of the swimmers – it’s the summer solstice today and far too chilly to think of going to the beach. Yesterday I got a bit sunburnt in the garden – there’s no rhyme or reason to our weather.
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Our sweltery summers have their compensations.
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