Monday's 'supermoon' (only 14% bigger but 30% brighter), combined with a lunar eclipse, sucked the sea up along the Peninsula coastline in a magnificent display of the power of water. Despite there being no storm conditions, the harbourside restaurants in Kalk Bay were once again flooded as the waves smashed through the windows where only a week before we had enjoyed a wonderful dinner overlooking the floodlit rocks. Then the waves only splashed a light foam against the windows, but we know the destruction that is regularly visited upon these buildings when a gale force southeaster blows. The only form of mopping up that could take place was to open all the doors and just let the sea flow straight through. It was only a drop in the ocean compared to the tsunamis experienced in the East and we can be grateful to have never yet suffered such an ordeal. It wouldn't take too much of a wave to sweep across the densely populated Cape Flats which were once part of the seabed anyway.
This morning it looked as though the plug had been pulled out and the bay near my home was more rocky than watery. When high tide rolled in at 4pm, it was a different story, although still nowhere near the levels we have seen in the past. Here are some photos to show the contrast.
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