Go Darke

I took the wife and the (violent) pygmies to the airport earlier. They flew back to Jo’burg while I drive back up tomorrow with the luggage and canis familiaris. On my way back ‘home’ I decided the clouds hanging in low on the Kogelberg look quite nice and stopped at the shark spotters shack to snap a photo.

It’s a nice vantage point because there’s a nice break below the cliff where the shark spotters can (usually) see any lurking Great Whites coming into the shallower water and they can then (theoretically) warn the surfers of the impending threat.

You likely can’t read it, but the board records the last sighting on the 28/12/2019 @ 14H08… 3 meters.

In any event, the shark spotter was sitting there… in his little cliffside shack… an elderly gentleman with a quart bottle of beer. He downed the last schluck from the bottle as I got there before setting it aside and getting another from the cooler-box…

Drink beer, stare at the ocean. I can think of worse jobs.