I know, I know, you haven’t seen photos of happy kids playing in the sand and water yet… but today’s weather may have been amazing, but the water wasn’t.  I’ve never actually seen the beaches in Ballito so narrow, and the waves so high at low tide.  In fact, it was also the first time I can ever recall not being able to swim! The lifeguards didn’t even put out swimming beacons today… that’s how hectic the waves were.

By noon, most people had left the beach actually, because the wind was starting to pick up, and there was hardly any space on the beach with the waves being so high.

So this afternoon, while Lance and Connor had a nap, Bradley and I took a walk with my camera along the beach walk, and watched the massive waves pounding the beaches.  The waves were actually coming right up to the grass under the walkways… in most places you couldn’t even see the beaches or rocky outcrops that are normally so high and are normally teaming with fishermen in the afternoons.