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July 2022 Cape Camera

July 2022 Outing

Pre-sunset get-together in beautiful Paternoster. Photo by Claire Denny
Winter outing to Paternoster

by Richard Goldschmidt

Thirty-six members and friends headed for Paternoster on the watching local rugby earlier, accompanied by certain liquid re-
West Coast on Friday 22 July for our first weekend outing for freshments. Our members had a wonderful time for about an
2022. Twenty-five of us stayed at the comfortable La Baleine hour and a half photographing their antics, before heading into
Beach House chalets right on the waterfront. We met at 5pm the nearby Voorstrandt restaurant for dinner where we expe-
that afternoon on the lawn of one of the houses for welcom- rienced a most enjoyable night of good food and lively con-
ing drinks, and to take photographs of the sunset over the sea. versation, sheltered from the winter cold. Our thanks to Adrian
From there we headed to the local Pizza restaurant where we Venter, owner of the restaurant and member of the West Coast
spent a very sociable remainder of the evening. Photographic Club, for organizing the local fishermen and horse
The plan for the next morning was spoilt by rain. Some of us riders for us to photograph. The next morning, we once again
met on the beach at 7am, but the fishermen decided to re- assembled on the beach before sunrise to photograph the rid-
main in bed and not go out to sea due to weather conditions, ers on horseback. Photographing a horse passing a few metres
so sunrise shots were all that we could take. Although the area away from you at full gallop, whilst you are looking through a
receives most of its rain during winter, the weather conditions camera, is not for the faint-hearted. I think some people learnt
improved, and we we're treated to two beautiful sunny days quite a lot from their blurred photos in tricky lighting conditions
with a spectacular sunset on Saturday evening from this session.
After breakfast, some people set off photographing around the Check-out was after breakfast for most of us, and so we bade
town and also down the coast into the Cape Columbine Nature farewell to all and most set off to slowly head home visiting
Reserve. As most council members were present, they decided other towns on the way back. Thanks to Dave Gordon for do-
to hold a special meeting that morning to formulate plans for ing most of the liaison with the West Coast Photographic club,
the forthcoming exhibition at Groot Constantia. At 5pm that which made the weekend so enjoyable for us. We are looking
afternoon we had arranged for a fisherman team to ‘perform’ forward to visit in the flower season to enjoy the famous wild-
for us on the beach with their boat launch and messing around flowers that the West Coast is renowned for.
with fishing nets. It was quite a performance, as they had been

Photo by Richard Goldschmidt Photo by Kim Stevens Photo by Lesley Parolis

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