Mom woke me up with by pulling off my duvet. I was far from impressed but I knew that we needed to get going. We packed up the van, packed lunch and we headed out to Miller’s Point slip way.
As we left the caravan park in thick mist and darkness, I miscalculated the distance between the braai fire place and my car and we scraped the corner of the bricks and my passenger door. It broke my heart. There is nothing that I can do at this point but to just carry on. My poor Suzi-Belle has had her first scrape and I am devastated. But I cant cry about this now as we are running out of time. We headed off to Millers to meet up with Steff.
Thankfully we arrived before Stef and the boat did. We sorted out our goodies and we headed down to the boat. We were both feeling a little anxious but also excited.
We hit to open sea around 8ish and with Roman Island insight, our excitement increased. I grabbed my camera and started taking photos. The sea was amazing. So calm and so flat. I have never been on the ocean like this. It is to me very strange to have such a calm sea. But anyhow, we carried on. We saw jelly fish, kelp for Africa, fish, seals, birds and so much more. The visibility down to the sea bed must have been any thing from a few meters to anything up to and beyond 10 meters. I have never seen anything like this.
We left Roman rock and headed back. Played with some seals and penguins, I tried to photograph some Oystercatchers, and gulls and terns, but no-body wanted to play with us. We landed up with kelp in our props and Stef had to clean up.
We arrived back at the slip way, we said our good byes and we headed off to breakfast. I remembered seeing a Waffle place, and I really felt like a waffle. But instead of waffles we landed up having an awesome breakfast at another restaurant as the waffle place was closed. Not a problem great breakfast. Going back there again tomorrow
We headed to Boulders and spent quite a long time there. After Boulders I had to take a photo of Able Seaman Just Nuisance. This dog has really made an impression on me. We headed up to take a photo of his grave and we grabbed some lunch.
Came back down into Simon’s Town and we went to Scratch patch. After Scratch Patch, we headed to a shop to buy some chicken for dinner and we headed home to the caravan park.
All through the day I have been stressing about my photos. I had a gut feeling that there was an incorrect setting in my camera. When we arrived as Just Nuisance’s grave I realised that my ISO was incorrect. Let hope that they are OK.
Tonight as I was going through my photos and found that things were quite bad. I cannot use any of my photos as the ISO some how moved to 5000 and all the photos are quite furry. I’m devastated.
Chatted to Stef and he has agreed that we can make another trip around Roman Island to take some more photos. This man is truly amazing. Such a great team.
What started off as a shocking day, improved, got even better, then crashed and burned has now improved once again. Thanks to God for taking control and us having a little faith that all will be OK.
We turned in for the night. Tomorrow we head back to Stef with another boat trip to Cape Point to photograph the old and new light house at cape point but from the sea.
Another exciting day planned, I just hope that there is no other epics. I’m so tired of this stress. Tomorrow I hope to post more photos for you. I would love to post some of today’s, but I am to embarrassed to show the messes.
Hold thumbs, tomorrow works well.
Sleep well to everyone. Pray hard that tomorrow works out as good as today but without epics.
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