Today my hike along the southernmost shoreline of Africa led me to gold. What a magical moment in this magical place that looks like paradise.
This beach is thin, but it's also long, about 4,5km from the prestigious Beacon Isle timeshare resort on the east end, to the marine protected seal sanctuary called Robberg Peninsula on the west.
This is perhaps the most prestigious piece of beachfront real estate in the entire southern Africa too. Up there with the best in Cape Town, just 550km to the west.
This beach is less known, a secret that is however becoming more known in recent years as the town explodes with new arrivals from the other cities around the country.
On this beach you could be walking past multi millionaires and not realize it. There's a small air field with landing strip nearby for those who like to arrive on their private plane. One pilot does acrobatics with his plane above the beach when he visits once or twice a year.
You wouldn't say it from looking at the photos today, but this beach is also known as Millionaire's Mile due to the prime real estate that overlooks it. The climate is temperate all year long, and that in itself is priceless.
Even the sea temperature is tolerable most of the year. It's a Goldilocks zone, and thus it's only natural to find gold washing up on its shores.
Not only gold, but other items occur on my trail here along this sunny shoreline. Today, perhaps due to tides or rough seas, numerous large jellyfish have dotted the shoreline.
They are basically spherical blobs of translucent jelly, now lifeless and limbless at the water's edge. The shoreline is constant, yet simultaneously shifting, like the weather. They're intertwined.
Sometimes odd rare bits of plastic litter wash up, especially after stormy seas. Recently they have had lots of little shell creatures stuck to them, as if they had been in the sea for s long time.
Rarely does any seaweed wash up at all on this beach. So when I do find a piece, it's a huge anomaly. The shape is beautiful and harmonious in its own way, like a symbol of eternity or yin yang.
The amazing geometry on this fish lying on the sand is truly profound to behold. The pattern on the fish body looks like a harmonious hexagram, shifting into functional fractals.
This bone is another rare find and my guess is that it could be that of a seal fin. Numerous seals wash up and die on this beach occasionally all through the year and sometimes their bodies are decomposed into the sand until all that remains is the skeleton. This piece had such beautiful angles to it and a shape of harmony and balance.
As you can see, this place allows for a sense of timeless, something all meditation aspire to. Something visible in those absorbed in play.
Be sure to come and find yourself here on these shores, and nurture your inner child, when you have the moment.
Photos my own
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