Hout Bay

Hello Everyone,

Well, we survived the South Easter but now we are in the middle of a South Wester  and this time the wind is howling from the opposite direction.  There is a mountain just behind us so, once again, we have katabatic bullets of wind blowing down from it and hitting us from behind.  We are slowly running out of mooring lines as two of them have already sheared right through and we have every line we own out holding the boat.  

Yesterday I walked into a building across the road from the beach.  The doors to the entrance had obviously been left open during the South Easter and walking across the foyer was like walking on the beach there was so much sand there.  Even the corridors on the first floor were full of sand!  Looking across to the mountain on our west, there is sea sand on the lower slopes.  This sand apparently does a full circle, first being blown there by the South Easter and then being blown back by the South Wester......

We have to leave tomorrow as our berth is needed for someone else.  We will go up to Saldhana Bay, 100nm up the coast where we leave the boat.

Cheers for now.

Arti and Dimitri