Coast to Coast. Life Along South Africa's Shores PDF
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Contents Map Foreword Diamond Coast More than Diamonds Alexander Bay Living on Sea Mist Lichen Hill A Frolic in Port Jolly Springbok to Port Nolloth Sunken Treasure Kleinsee Copper Country Hondeklip Bay West Coast Cave of Gentlemen Heerenlogement Mannerly Mad Geese Lambert’s Bay Lobster & Chips Elands Bay West Coast Wild Laaiplek Fossil Footprints Saldanha & Langebaan Sunset Birds West Coast Flamingos Cape Town and Peninsula Bourbon Street on Cape Town Long A Bird in Uniform Simon’s Town Baboon Tales False Bay Abalone Patrol Creature Feature Buckets & Spades Cape Point Route The Overberg Whale Town Hermanus Shark Boats Gans Bay Light in the Darkness Lighthouses Chapel by the Sea Arniston Whisky & De Hoop to Port Beaufort Submarines The Garden Route A Vic Bay Waiter Victoria Bay Flowering Kingdom Fynbos A Woodcutter’s Town Knysna A Matter of Style Crags to Keurbooms Deep in the Forest Storms River Frontier Country Supertubes Jeffreys Bay Calabash Nights Port Elizabeth Townships Buffalo City East London Wild Coast Hiking along History Wild Coast Family Hotels Castaway Town Port St Johns & Beyond Tale of the Teaspoon Mbotyi River Lodge KwaZulu-Natal Little Big Fish Sardine Run Zulu City Durban Prince of the Tidal Ballito Pool Turtle Beach Greater St Lucia Women at Work KwaJobe Lake People Kosi Bay Sky Safari Helicopter Dreams Chopper Flight The Reading Room Glossary Foreword The fishermen’s village of Kassiesbaai, part of the larger town of Arniston (also called Waenhuiskrans) near Cape Agulhas. Something magical happens to your head when you start packing for a seaside holiday. And when you crest that hill after a journey punctuated by burger burps and catfights and some really strange radio, the brightest light bulb in the car shouts: “There’s the sea!” And everyone goes gaga. Family feuds are temporarily suspended as you enter the coastal town in a fevered state of anticipation. You know the rest. You’ve probably been there many times. It’s buckets and spades and The Summer of ’42 and Beach Party and sunburnt noses and stolen snogs behind the rocks all over again. We went to the beach in the spring of 2005. We stayed there for more than two months, travelling the entire course of South Africa’s coastline from Alexander Bay to Kosi Bay. Shorelines – A Journey along the South African Coast came out of it. The book travelled light but also tackled burning issues that we all need to address before it’s too late. We loved writing it. One night late, after completing Shorelines, we were just flipping through the photographs of the trip when something came to mind. There was another book here. Let’s put together a joyous visual celebration of seaside life in South Africa, we thought. Just to show people what they stand to lose if they carry on stressing the coast. We unashamedly plundered little scenes from our Shorelines journal to accompany the photographs of the trip and brought some new material to market. Here is Coast to Coast. Meet the people we came across; share the good light with us. Feel the heat. Stick your toe in both oceans, throw back your head and laugh like no one’s watching. Then come and have a drink at The Deck. Life is sometimes just a bowl of oysters. Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit
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