Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Tsunami


The South African East coast has had its own Tsunami over the past three days! The equinox coincided with high spring tides and a 40 knot storm from the south to result in 7 m waves that have been battering the coast for two days now.

I flew up the coast yesterday in a chopper and saw two houses that had been taken by the sea. There's also millions of rands worth of damage, waves washed into apartments and damaged roads and drainage systems.

We expect the swell to drop off from today, so hopefully the damage will abate.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

More Tigers!


I got back from Aliwal today, where I got some nice shots of big Tiger sharks, the water was dirty on the surface, so if you didn't mind a few scary vertical approaches, there was this amazing filtered light down deeper.

These things never cease to amaze me. I came away with four or five nice shots, all HD.