Capewinter

In the queue at the Cape Town International Convention Centre for my first COVID shot yesterday. It’s a huge, well-managed, friendly operation. With the current dominant variant, it’s a long way from a guarantee that we won’t get the virus. But there’s a much better chance, and an even better chance that the virus will pass mildly and leave no long term effects. It’s not a castle. It’s a shield. But a critically important one that would be impossible without the dedicated efforts of thousands of independent, university-based scholars and masses of tax-payer funding globally.

Rainbow over the street. One downside of this 50mm I realised… focuses past infinity. Not a major problem, but not ideal.

Another dawn by the Black River, looking to the confluence where the Liesbeek joins it. I’m still waiting for my new lenses because Fedex is a garbage company. Hopefully soon though. If I’d had the wide lens I could have included the full rainbow that went along with this scene.

A rare moment away from Obs and surrounds during COVID. @withoutaleaf needed to buy ice-cream in the dampest place in this damp city. I enjoyed shouting “Scofflaw!” at her when she crossed a foot to the right of the pedestrian crossing.

I didn’t see an otter today. I saw two.

You meet some extraordinary people out on the street in Observatory.

It’s a lovely day tomorrow… Some proper Cape Town rain today. Skitten is taking every precaution to ensure coziness.

The tourist’s eye view of Cape Town. A shining jewel between two great oceans. True but also not.

Huge day for me. First time I’ve ever seen a wild otter. And it was here, fifteen minutes’ walk from my house where the city thinks it’s ok to bulldoze everything to put up offices for Amazon. The Cape Clawless Otter is thriving in this little bit of urban paradise.

Apparently I took this almost exactly ten years ago. August 7, 2010. A slightly gloomy winter’s day down at the good ol’ sewrage-works with my dad, @millar6300, relieved by the firework-brightness of these Greater Flamingos.