Well Hello There Fellow Travelers And Hivers
Lets take another dive into my Long Forgotten Holiday Adventures.
I have to say this again, it feels like a life time ago since I went on these adventures and even though I've had plenty of adventures in between, none came quite as close and exhilarating as this one had me feeling. Perhaps it's just because I've long forgotten about it and thinking back to it give me that feeling of longing for something you never knew or it was truely amazing.
Doesn't matter now does it, this adventure was in Cape Agulhas and the first thing that will stand out for most is most likely the lighthouse or the shipwreck. For me personally it would be the shipwreck since I wanted to visit a shipwreck close to Danabaai where I had my latest adventure filled journey with The Betty. Unfortunately we weren't able to because the weather didn't allow for it, but perhaps this year things might be different!
The Journey Continues!
A Little Abandoned House.
This was the last thing I ever thought I would see so close to the ocean front, a long abandoned house. Whatever the reasons for it being abandoned would forever remain a mystery, however thinking about it now I should have actually dared going in there, it would have made for a few great photos.
If I had the means I would have occupied it myself before the decay went too far, but let's leave bygones alone.
The Glorious Cape Agulhas Sea.
Well there it is, the glorious Cape Agulhas seaside.
It really isn't like most beaches we have here in South Africa it's more of a rocky one than a sandy one. I don't know much of beaches across the world but I've seen quite a few of them and I have never really seen beaches as sandy as what we have in South Africa. Expect for Miami, I know that they also have sandy beaches.
Laughs as I'm writing this up I'm getting more and more of a craving to go back there and relive all of it! It wont be long now though, December is around the corner and as always it will surprise us upon its arrival!
Cape Agulhas Lighthouse.
Lighthouses.
Something that has as of recently attracted my attention wildly, it's nothing special of-course, that much we all know but they can make for the absolute best photos. That begs the question why?
Might be they are beacons of hope for the lost and the damned, a chance to live when all seems lost. Is it not?
I started falling in-love with taking photos of them only since the last vacation I had in Danabaai. Now I'll be searching for one at every town I visit near the coastline. Perhaps I'll even plan a route out and visit a whole bunch of them in one go.
The thing I like most about a lighthouse (Oh wow I sound like a lunatic that fell in love with a bloody lighthouse) is that they are all different in shape and size, some are longer than others while some are located at higher points than others. Much like people not one is alike.
That might also be one of the downsides for me personally with living so far inland. Heck I even live almost smack dead in the middle of our great country! I'm surrounded by forests and deserts and snow alike! But none of them have that perfect conditions for photography or maybe that's just a personal mindset thing.
_I feel so in my own element taking photos at the seaside, one time I worked for a company and every April and December school holidays we went down for work in Hartenbos. A lovely old place between George and Mosselbay. Every morning before I clocked in at the beach front shop I took a photo of the sea and all its beautifull colours!
Oh how I miss those days!
The Meisho Maru Shipwreck.
Now before anyone tells me that this is not the right shipwreck, I would like to remind everyone that these photos was taken well over 10 years ago and as we all know water and especially salty water has a way of eating away at metal.
I myself can't believe how much of this ship has decayed over the last ten years, it's almost not even recognizable anymore as the sea ate at it for the last ten years!
I feel quite lucky to have been able to see this while it still maintained some shape!
There is both an eerie an enjoying feeling of looking at a shipwreck, the eerie part being the wondering about how it all happened? How did this ship end up stranded and caught up in these rocks? Was it perhaps a storm that pulled it in? Did anybody die in the process or did anyone survive this?
The enjoying feeling for me at-least would be the ability to take some great photos of something that has also been long forgotten (In a weird sense) Do the locals even notice this ship sitting there on the beach anymore or is it no more attractive than a single tree in a forest stretching for miles?
The Not So Captivating But Still Beautifull!
I have a few more random photos to share before we tie this one off. I might also have a post or two in the pipeline still to come but I'm not entirely sure if I'll have context to add to those so it might not happen after all but let's see which way the candle will turn once burned.
I have said this in a different post but I am more of a landscape photographer (Noob Photographer) than anything else and back then I really didn't have any idea of what I was doing. But there is no point in crying over that spilt milk.
The Cape Agulhas are is certainly a place of beauty in its own way!
Peacefull and Serene!
A Hole In The Ground.
Now most would say it's a "Sucky Beach Place" but I do think there is a lot of beauty hidden in what we normally let slide by, with the enormous amounts of rocks and rock formations being battered endlessly by the sea it has a lot of hidden beauties ALOT.
Like this hollowed out tube located in a random boulder next to the ocean side, I mean how does this even happen? How can nature be so precise in something so un-precise?
Beautifull if you ask me.
The Hanging Cliff.
Referring back to the shipwreck and wondering how it would look ten years later I might think the same of this carved out rocks. But then again rocks are a great deal more resilient than metal right?
But with that said it might be that the tip of this hanging rock has already fallen off now ten years later. I had a chat with The Betty now and she is just as keen as me on visiting Cape Agulhas again as she said it also feels like a lifetime ago when she last visited and she just went past, never really stayed or visited there.
The Long Forgotten Flowing Rocks.
Oh how I wish I could go back to my teenage years and give myself a smack or three over the head! I've missed out on so many beautifull things that was always all around me! Why did I never really fully indulge myself in these beauties?
Why did I care so much for things that didn't really matter and still does not matter? Why did I waste so much time being stuck in-front of a screen than rather being stuck in-front of a sunset or even sunrise (Oh who am I fooling even with knowing all of this I still sleep in every chance I get) 🤣
If I could turn it all around I would but those days are long gone and now I have to make the best of what I have left and luckily for me I've still got many years left!
Dated 01/07/2023
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