Ode to the Fan

Ode to the Fan

Ode to the Fan Ode to the Fan: The January sun, a brassy bastard, beat down on KZN. Even the Umzimkulu River, usually a lazy, brown ribbon, simmered, the stench of sewage rising in sickly plumes. Municipal strikes, a predictable summer ritual, had crippled the town. Water pumps groaned to a halt, toilets overflowed, and … Read more

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Chasing the goose – surfing the KZN South Coast in summer

Surfing the KZN South Coast in summer

Chasing the goose – surfing the KZN South Coast in summer Surfing the KZN South Coast in summer…Onshore, offshore, side-shore, cross-shore day to day. Bluebottles, sunburn traffic and brown water, dawn patrols and of course chasing the proverbial golden goose. I woke up way too early the other morning again to a sweet and very uncharacteristic … Read more

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Clive Barber African Vibrations

Clive Barber African Vibrations The first time i heard of Clive Barber was in the Godfreys house in Seal Point- they have a poster from his surf film ‘African Vibrations’ on their wall, the film itself has been lost in the ether, the reels lying somewhere between here and Australia. I have since seen, and … Read more

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South coast shark sightings

Reports have been filtering from all over the South coast shark sightings seem an all too common occurrence. Here on the South coast shark sightings are a part of life- before all the sardines got hoovered up by the Chinese we used to see crazy stuff at all our local surf spots each Winter- now, the … Read more

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