I just wanted to share a couple of photos with you…

Knysna seems to be one of those places where nothing really gets planned but ‘things’ just happen. Yesterday was one of those days that started with a simple SMS from my lagoon neighbours and good friends Peter and Sally on the yacht ‘Witblits’.

“Going Sailing?” it said…

By the afternoon a raft of four boats had gathered at ‘Featherbed Bay’ shattering the peace with loud music, laughter and filling the air with braai-smoke. Mike took a few of us out through ‘The Heads’ on an eye-wateringly fast spin into the Indian Ocean on his unbelievably powerful RIB and as the afternoon drifted lazily by, so too did one or two inquisitive charter yachts. It was a beautiful afternoon too. Perhaps the most notable ‘thing’ though was when, just after sunset, someone took a call from a friend in Cape Town to tell us that in a few minutes, the International Space Station will be directly overhead being chased closely by the Space Shuttle. It sounded to me like a hoax (like that Mars thing that did the email rounds recently!) but sure enough, there amongst the stars was a bright object moving rapidly towards the horizon in the north. Just three minutes later, exactly as predicted, another bright light in the sky went tearing across the sky in hot pursuit on the exact same trajectory – unbelievable!

Jo and I left the Featherbed anchorage early this morning and motored back to the mooring as the sunrise burned through a low-lying haze over the lagoon. It was utterly beautiful and although my intention is not to make you all hate me, I must tell you that as I steered us back through the lagoon, Jo was preparing a full English fried breakfast (worthy of the ‘ten best…’ list Col’!)

So life goes on in Knysna and I’ve even made a commitment to work with a local restaurateur to help launch a new café/bar. You know, a sort of, um… job! That starts in a couple of weeks so I’m making the most of my spare time now and loving every minute of it. It’s not a long-term commitment as I’m still being open-minded about the future of the W2N project but for now, I think it’ll be fun.

That’s it then – nothing really earth-shattering to report.

More soon…

Bee

Rob Clark

W2N Global Ltd.

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