Noordhoek

I took this photograph driving along Chapman's Peak, looking back at Noordhoek.  The coast looks calm and silent in this image, which is very deceiving.  This strip of coast is one of the most temperamental I know.  It is a wind-swept place, where the sands are whipped into meringue shaped dunes.  On a good day, this beach is beautiful but it's moods are so unpredictable it's best viewed at a distance - unless one likes the wildness of certain places, in which case it's an exhilarating place to stroll.

Fire Flower

I will be arbitrarily blogging the odd photo now and then, from my most recent trip to Natal & Cape Town.  It seems that I hardly have the time to write anymore and so my photographs must speak for themselves.  I took this photograph, after an exhausting hike, in the heat of the midday sun.  It seemed out of place, as if the charred stump on which it grew had burst into flame.

Web

While walking in the early morning along the Cleo's Pool track in the Drakensberg - I found this spider's web, heavy with dew. It looked beautiful, like some minute chandelier. It made me think of the rich imagery in 'Midsummer Night's Dream' "...and I serve the fairy queen, to dew her orbs upon the green." I took a closer picture, which can be seen below this entry.

Dew Orbs