MUSSEL PICKING - The Place and the Pleasure

Getting down to Kommetjie - and beyond ...... Misty Cliffs and the Scarborough rocks to pick mussels at Spring low gives one time for introspection, especially when it is early on a winter's morning and you are absolutely alone. Part of that introspection is viewing the natural flotsam and jetsam that the ocean deposits amidst the rocks and how it is able to create a veritable bubble bath of foam in little corners where you least expect to find it. Picking the mussels and limpets is one of my favorite pastimes - cooking them equally so .......... but taking the camera down makes it all that much more special: having it with you causes you to look so much more carefully at what you are seeing, and in so doing really appreciate the endless stream of art that nature presents us with at every single turn.