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September/October 2021 Cape Camera

September Outing

(Top row) Richard Goldschmidt (left), Joan Ward (centre & right); (Bottom row) Joyce Goldschmidt (centre) Joan Ward (left & right)
Weather challenges at the West Coast

by Richard Goldschmidt

It was an outing fraught with difficulties for an organizer. The photography was achieved.
original idea was that we hired as many of the cottages at Saturday dawned clear, sunny and warm, and seventeen of us
Duinepos within the West Coast National Park as required for met at the Atlantic Ocean at Tsaarsbank at 10am and the re-
all of us to stay at one place. Back in January, Duinepos was quired group photo for Facebook was taken. Some took pic-
unavailable as it was undergoing an upgrade, and only two tures of the crashing waves whilst others chatted, as we had
members answered the call to urgently book, so we got only not met in person for some time. From there we headed into
two of the five houses within the park. We ended up with six the Posberg Wild Flower reserve and joined the very many cars
staying at Jo-Anne’s Beach house in Churchhaven, four staying travelling around. We met together at the Uitkyk lookout and
at the remote Abrahamskraal house near Geelbek – some ten enjoyed a warm and sunny convivial picnic for lunch.
kilometers away, and eleven decided to book into a bed and Clouds started forming after lunch and most headed out, with
breakfasts place in Langebaan. the idea of taking the scenes along the lagoon at Kraalbaai. Af-
The weather on Friday night was clear, cold and windy, so much ternoon was at leisure. The ten members staying in the Park
so that the two parties within the Park decided to not get to- managed to get together for drinks and snacks at Jo-Anne’s be-
gether to have a braai evening. One party headed off to ‘the fore heading ‘home’ to braai separately again. (All because you
house on the rock’ (Seeberg viewpoint) for sunset photography are not supposed to travel at night within the Park).
after spending some time in the local bird hide, whilst the other
party went to photograph the jetty at Kraalbaai. Some good

(from left) Lionel Willis, Trudi & Nicol du
Toit, Elmara Willis, Dave Gordon, Rich-
ard Goldschmidt, Lesley & Lambe Pa-
rolis, Jacoba van Zyl, Andrew Spooner,
Kim Stevens, Joan Ward, Sally-Ann
Spooner, Wendy Burchell, Jonathan
Burchell, Marius Stockenstrom (Photo
by Joyce Goldschmidt). The people
missing from this photo are Anna Mor-
ris, Janice Ashby, and Mireille Landman.

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