Kommetjie

I just have to tell you about the magnificent days we are having here in Kommetjie.  It is June in Cape Town and the weather couldn't be more perfect.  Blue skies, the lightest breeze, the sea like a mirror.  The loudest sound is the crashing of the waves at the Outer Kom.  Yesterday they were 15 - 20 foot on the reef and only the bravest surfers were out there.  As the sun goes down, a flock of Sacred Ibis pass overhead, a long V-formation stretching across the sky.  They are heading to their night-time roost in Hout Bay and tomorrow morning at first light the V will fly over my house again. leaving only the whisper of their beating wings to indicate their passing.  The robin is calling in the milkwood tree and a small flock of guineafowl have come to scratch on the front lawn.  The setting sun casts an apricot glow on the mountains of the Peninsula, the shadows changing from week to week as the sun moves northwards.  As the sun sinks into the sea, we look for that rare flash of green that can be sometimes be seen as a final salute to the day.
Soon our real winter will set in and we are expecting some mighty storms soon.  It will be time for the sea to wash up into the beachfront gardens and up the road next to my house, depositing benches in trees and kelp in the roads.  Those are also magnificent days in Kommetjie, when we look at the awesome power of nature and can't imagine that the sea will ever be calm again.  We are amongst the luckiest people on earth, we Kommetjie dwellers.