Short, sharp showers are currently the order of the day in Cape Town. Dawn brought a spectacular display of pink and orange clouds casting their peachy glow over the Peninsula and sending everyone who had an opportunity and a camera to vantage points where they could capture the moment for posterity. We had to be quick - even 10 minutes made a difference to the quality of the light - and I have to confess that if I wasn't posting my regular Good Morning from Cape Town photo, I wouldn't have gone outside and would have missed this soul-restoring scene:
As an avid cloud watcher (some people watch birds, I watch clouds), I knew that these clouds would bring heavy rain in brief spurts, and I wasn't disappointed. It's a very convenient type of rain - you can watch the cloud approach and judge whether it will rain over the place you want to be. You can rush outside to fetch the washing off the line as it approaches and go back out to re-hang it not five minutes later.
As you drive along the road, the sun blazes down on you and then you ride into a curtain of rain, swooshing through a flood with wipers on double speed before emerging on the other side a kilometre or two later, where the road is bone dry. You can dash from shop to shop between showers without so much as batting a raindrop off your eyelid. It certainly is preferable to in interminable drizzle.
I'm told the reflections cast by these clouds on the wet sand at Long Beach were a sight to behold and hope that someone's photos will make their way onto the social media for us all to admire and enjoy.
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