Heat Wave

Beta Beach our secret hang out - don't tell anyone

Seaweed bobbing like my thoughts on this simmering hot day. It's so hot that the temperature is soaring to over 38 degrees

Clifton Beach where we took an early morning walk a few days ago and came across this lovely young woman on a photo shoot

 In fact wherever you look in Cape Town there seems to be a nonchalant little group of photographers, stunning leggy models and accompanying minions

But then this is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world - at least the Chance Muse thinks so

With its great surf, huge boulders and delightful bungalows dotted temptingly among the gently swaying palm trees

The Chance Muse thinks it would be quite nice to have a little shack here

Mr P isn't sure

Still it is a wonderful walk  across white sands

And the sea is so transparent and the sand oh so soft on the toes...

Just for a moment you could feel you had gone straight to paradise

Perhaps an island in the West Indies where a Caribbean calypso is playing in the wind

Huge waves crash on a tumble of vast primeval boulders

Yes, it is one of the most expensive bits of real estate in Africa....

But one can always find a quiet spot if one goes out early enough

And be alone with the sea and sky

Discovering strange rock pools full of alien creatures

Sea anemones with fringed auras of cobalt blue and rust

And mussel-encrusted rocks pounded by huge surf

And little inlets and promontories of rock jutting out to sea

And a strange little sea-bird - cormorant? - looking lost and sad

And distant ships hinting at a wider world beyond

The Chance Muse enjoying the heat with hat adorned with bathers thinking up her next blog....