The Bad News Coming From Harding This Rainy Season
The Bad News Coming From Harding This Rainy Season: the Farmer’s Dam in Harding is jam-packed with raw sewage, and it’s all heading straight for Port Shepstone this December holidays!
Yip, each end-of-year, our loyal and eager holidaymakers make their jolly way down to the coast for holidays. Little do they know about the state of the water they plan to swim and play in. For at the very same time that the tourists are heading down to the coast, so is every pathogen available in the failed sewerage system that the ANC refused to maintain for three decades.
These pathogens and nasties can become immune to all the drugs that can also be found in human sewage. Antibiotics, anti-retrovirals, oestrogen – are just a few frontline medical defence mechanisms that are currently being defeated by pathogens and other superbugs in these eutrophic bodies of water. They are becoming stronger and eventually can become immune to these vital treatments.
The pathogens have been waiting patiently for the rains to come. The inevitable flood waters that free them from the dams and the failed municipal sewage systems inland. The rains take all this bad stuff that has been fermenting in pure sewage for months now with it downstream.
All the way to the beach.
Currents
The prevailing current off our coastline is the magnificent Agulhas current. It is so-named due to its needle-like shape as it screams down the east face of the continent of Africa. Resembling a marlin’s bill. Marlin are named Peixe da Agulha in Portuguese. An agulha is a needle in that lovely, poetic language.
On either side of this torrent (reaching incredible speeds of up to 6 knots or so), the water is turbulent and swirls (gyres form). These pockets of swirling energy combine to create a counter-current. You can use counter-currents to navigate up a flooding river if you can identify and channel into them.
This also happens on the inside of the Agulhas Current, as it bumps up against the continent. And against the fresh floodwaters. This results in an inshore current that goes in reverse. It is this turbulent energy system that so effectively distributes the sewage-borne floodwaters up and down the coast. It does not simply get whisked away by the Aghulas.
As winter approaches, the Agulhas starts acting crazy and speeds right up. It also starts to wobble, and big chunks of this raging current break off and do their own thing. This phenomenon was known as the Natal Pulse because a main cause of these huge chunks of water breaking off is the continental shelf off Durban. Where it goes out for miles and greets the now-meandering and energetic Agulhas.
As these huge vortexes of warm water head south, they encounter the Agulhas Banks off the Cape. The swirling maelstroms interfere with the colder water down that way, where the sardines live. And drive a wedge of this colder water right up against the continent. Where it is captured by the reverse current created by the now-screaming Agulhas.
And it’s full of sardines! Aka The Sardine Run!
You can clearly see the Agulhas Current by Windy.com right here…and if you zoom right in you might find some counter current action. Depending on when in the season you are reading/watching this.
Solution
There is no solution available until the ANC is voted away. Only then can the looting and swindling be addressed and people held accountable for such travesties. Travesties as big as allowing an entire town’s sewage system to fall into total disrepair, decay, and even resulting in death. A young child drowned in the open sewage works at Harding recently, and nothing has been done about it.
There is no accountability for anything, whilst the judicial system refuses to prosecute or take on municipal managers and municipal staff. The system is rotten to the core and needs total re-addressing to make anything make sense in any KZN municipality again.
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And go fishing now while conditions and the water are still so good!
Sardines and Sighting Maps
Here are the links to existing and past Sardine Sighting Maps. With instructions on how to install The Sardine News right on your phone, tablet, or even desktop.
2024 Sardine Map
2023 Sardine Map
2021 Sardine Map
Channels
Brucifire Surf Retorts – highly entertaining surf reporting
Master Watermen – news from way down deep
The Sardine News – neva miss a single sardine
FishBazaruto – 1000 pounds plus
MYDO Tackle Talk – highly technical sport fishing
Surf Launching Southern Africa – getting out there safely
Water Woes – complain about your municipality here
Websites
umzimkulu.co.za – everything Umzimkulu umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za – will get you right out and onto the edge thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine masterwatermen.co.za – news from under water fishbazaruto.com – dreams brucifire.co.za – surf retorts
