A beautifully crisp morning saw a smallish group of runners meet at the Slangkop lighthouse at our later winter start time of 7am. It was really super to have Pete and Pat back with us. :)
On the way out, the beach was deserted but for the hundreds of birds and kelp 'snakes' - the millions of kelp flies! Is there a special name for those? (One we can use on the blog!)
After yesterday's Earth Day storm, when Mother Nature had a complete tantrum, the waves were enormous! Fortunately, Allison's reading of the tide tables was spot on and the tide was out, leaving the beach embossed with beautiful patterns, almost scaly, like a reptilian giant's skin. Later on, Noordhoek beach was to be completely underwater!
Some of us wondered if we shouldn't call this week's run a 'duathlon' given the depth and breadth of the water we had to wade through to cross the beach between Kommetjie and Noordhoek! Some took their shoes off and others didn't, but all of us were wet up to the knees. Do you know the saying, "Some people feel the rain and others just get wet?" Well, this was really "feeling" the sea water! Not to mention smelling the smell. Moving swiftly on...
There ended up being just two loose groups - a full distance group and a turn-back-earlier group. The full distance group did 14kms in 2 hours.
Our Run Planner this week was Allison Lamb, who was unfortunately sick on Saturday, and the Leader on the day was Pete Rogers.
Once again, so many stunning pictures by the photographers: Liz Brash, Jo Boswell and Lorraine Nevin. I've chosen a few to share here. More on the facebook page too.
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