After the recent shark attack at Fish Hoek beach, many local swimmers have decided to avoid swimming in the ocean, as the waters around the South Peninsula have become a risky place. For many, the solution is a swimming pool at home, but for the surfers in our area, there is no solution to the constant threat and danger posed by the sharks, surf-culture,
ARTICLESMy nails are chewed down stubs. I’ve spent most of the night staring at the roof and most of the morning snapping at my family members. A part of me knows I’m overreacting but at the same time it’s hard not to be a little nervous
ARTICLES, more articlesSome philosopher once presented a view of life as short and brutish. He argued that it is in the nature of human beings to look out for their individual interests, and if left to themselves they would destroy each other. They thus needed a strong state – what he called the Leviathan – to regulate those brutish instincts. The nature of Western societies came to be organised around this cynical concept of human beings.
ARTICLESOne of the greatest pleasures in life must surely be to escape to the ocean on a sea kayak with a bunch of friends sharing a love of the sea, the strains of distant traffic muted and our hectic life on land temporarily forgotten.
ARTICLES, Attractions, more articlesI write this knowing that all of us are feeling raw and vulnerable, thinking it could have been us out there on Tuesday afternoon. We all either fish, surf, body board, paddle, surf-ski, spearfish, scuba dive, lifesave, swim or all of the above in the bay. We love the sea and that’s why we live here.
ARTICLES“Look at all the friendly people” goes the line of a song way back in my memory. For me, that line, that song, apply to the South. Look at the friendly woman selling me pumpkin bread in the Simon’s Town bakery last year...
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