Body Beach Stretch – photo of the day of Marcello Zedde by Cape Town surf photographer Keahlo Van Gysen at the recent Rip Curl GromSearch presented by Sea Harvest at Witsands in Cape Town
More Photos Of The Day here
Surfing South Africa here
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Jeffreys Bay – The reconstruction of the Seekoei Estuary Causeway, which connects Aston Bay and Paradise Beach in Jeffreys Bay, is set to commence at the end of March 2025.
The project, valued at more than R9.3 million, will be primarily funded through the Municipal Disaster Recovery Grant (MDRG). Construction is expected to take approximately five months.
Kouga Executive Mayor, Hattingh Bornman, expressed the municipality’s commitment to restoring this critical link for residents and visitors. “The reconstruction of the Seekoei Estuary Causeway is a priority project for the municipality. The damage caused by severe storms and rough seas in September 2023 significantly impacted mobility in the area. We are pleased that funding has been secured to rebuild this vital crossing in a manner that enhances its resilience.”
A public meeting is scheduled for March to engage with the Paradise Beach community regarding the upcoming construction project and any potential disruptions.
The primary objective of the project is to install new precast portal culverts and reconstruct essential concrete erosion protection measures.
The scope of work includes:
Bornman emphasised the importance of the project while addressing community concerns. “It is important to note that the causeway will remain a low-water bridge crossing due to infrastructure limitations in the surrounding area. Raising the structure above the 1:100-year floodline, which is currently benchmarked at the Zon-en-Zee apartments, would not be feasible under existing regulatory requirements.”
Further reading:
Mayor Hattingh Bornman Visits Global Leadership Academy
A recent trip to Cape Town, the place of my birth, caused a severe re-evaluation of this false dystopia and a general vibe that Cape Town can piss right off
How do you pack clothing for Cape Town? Fck knows. It was 37 degrees on the day of our arrival, and the Kombi was actually melting. A snowy wind blew from the southeast the next day, and we were in our thickest winter jackets. I wore my winter jacket, boardshorts, a beanie, and a cap over the beanie as protection from the skin-melting sun pouring through the wind. Not a good look.
The Cape Doctor tried its hardest to blow my youngest child off a cliff and tried to blow the Kombi door off its hinges and the same cliff. The wind is your daily dose of abject misery. It blows around corners, and Cape Town can piss right off.
Don’t worry about peak-hour congestion; normal-hour congestion will try and kill you. Two hours to sit in the Kombi, listen to KFM drivel and think about how you totally messed up your life with bad choices after bad choices. No one deserves that.
Day Zero is still there! They are still perpetuating the lie. No one told the inhabitants of this city that there is enough water now, and they are still not flushing their turds immediately, and showering in the garden under plastic bottles of recycled pool backwash. Or maybe it’s just the people I hang with. Either way, Cape Town Can piss right off.
“Four tequilas as our pre-drinks celebration, please, my good man.”
“Here you go, that will be R640. Enjoy.”
“Ok, right. That’s the budget gone, no dinner tonight, no jol, let’s go home.”
“But, Dad. You still get to have the dops.”
Every dip into the Atlantic Ocean is a full-blown Wim Hoff session, and the hyperventilating is involuntary. Swimming in cold water doesn’t make you high on life; it makes you cold, so stop talking, kak.
While driving back from the beach along a high coastal route, I saw a shirtless, sweat-drenched man with a hairless chest, a giant beard and long hair wrapped in what looked like a Vietnam war bandana running furiously up the hill. He was in the middle of the road (quiet, not much traffic, but still). When he saw us, he started roaring like The Hulk, possibly to give himself some extra energy to get up the last bit of the steep hill. He ran past us screaming, and, utterly nonplussed, I sipped on my beer to calm down while driving as a direct result.
My kids acknowledged that they also saw it, so it wasn’t an LSD flashback, but no one could explain it.
“Dad, I want to go home,” said my youngest.
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A gallery of St Francis Surfers Competing Cape Town for the Rip Curl GromSearch presented by Sea Harvest at Witsands.
They achieved some wins and competed with great style and grace. Well done to all.
all photos by Keahlo Van Gysen
Leo Mcleod, 2nd place U12 Boys, 4th place U14 Boys.
Jack Erlank was one of the St Francis Surfers competing in Cape Town.
Summer Harding, winner U12 Girls
Slayde Shoter, winner U14 Boys.
Brin Jarvis
All the results here
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Dear readers
St Francis Today will be a bit quiet next week, as the massive juggernaut that is the management team will be resting on a small, currently cyclone-ravaged island in the Indian Ocean for 8 days.
Depending on internet connectivity, the adoption and assimilation of a digitally nomadic lifestyle and the strength of the Long Islands, there is very little way to predict the future, as well as the regularity of the newsletter, and of it actually making its way out of the software program and into your inboxes.
This silence/absence will last for a short while, and we will soon be back at the helm, spewing forth a combination of vital information, breaking news, local communication, and absolute drivel, as we are prone to do.
Then we will be back, and life will continue as normal, with the odd complaint, a few spelling mistakes, some feeble attempts at wry humour, and a few dad jokes here and there to please and engage with you, the reader.
If you have any advice, ideas, stories, complaints, or any other feedback, this is probably a good time to send it through. We will be in quite a decent mood and will be able to accept advice for what it is and not fly off the handle and mutter obscenities to no one in particular through gritted teeth.
It’s the countdown to the Easter Holidays already. Can you believe it? It’s another holiday season, and there is so much chocolate on the go. The weather is still good until easter, so good advice is to spend as much time as you can outdoors up until those Easter Holidays so that you get enough vitamin D to last you through the long dark teatime of the soul that is another St Francis winter.
See you in a week.
the editor
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