10/05/2026
📝 Travel diary #4
‘We have come from a landscape that was once an inland sea, with succulent plants such as the soutvygies, whose fleshy leaves still taste of salt. Now it is time to surrender to the swell and shimmer of the ocean itself, to upwellings and wind-driven waves, with lenticular clouds floating above us like flying UFOs.’
From the Karoo to the Cape, water keeps changing shape. In Breaking #317, Nicole writes about descending into a kelp forest in a remote corner of False Bay near Simon’s Town – the same underwater world made famous by My Octopus Teacher – guided by Pisces Divers experts ().
The hardest part comes first: giving yourself over to the unknown. A rubber dinghy, a wetsuit, fins, a mask – and then the question: why does the seabed glow azure?
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