Festivals built by the community have that special edge that will take our towns into the future regardless of which corporate or political big swinger is at the top of the ant pile. Got that off my chest, let's move on. We are all welded to our screens watching the world's best surfers tear into the world's best surf Supertubes at J-Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Supers, call it what you will.
In an overwhelming society, the sardine run can be a place of quiet contemplation and solitude.As the shoals moved up the coast last week, national debate and protest raged in the public domain about Eskom, Karpowership, gas and oil exploration rights, cholera, dead children and heinous corruption in Hammanskraal, and here, dire warnings about the potential for this killer “Third World” disease in Makhanda.
Two people bitten by hungry sharks last week were merely a hors d’oeuvre ahead of their main meal, the greatest shoal on Earth.The iconic sardine run is starting to appear off Boknes and heading to East London, said the metro’s only ocean tour operator, John Barry of Southern Cross Cruises.
I had the express pleasure of watching the Border Buffalo City grom team get handed their kit for the Sea Harvest Grommet Games (for boys and girls U10-U16) in Gqeberha which was held last weekend - 25 & 26 March. Groms, by the way, is the name given to entry level, beginner surfers. Even at age 60 plus, cool team kit is a thrill but at age 8 to 10, heaven has just opened up and been put on sale and the kit is for free.