Paddling your own canoe

At a bright yellow hut on the grassy slopes of the lawns leading down to the Bot River lagoon in Kleinmond you can hire a canoe, paddleski or kayak and spend some quality time paddling around with seagulls and waterbirds as your only companions.  In winter that is, because in summer you'll be joined by hordes of holidaymakers.  In the meantime, the late afternoon is a marvellous time to enjoy the bright colours of the ticket kiosk and the neatly stacked boats.

Crazy daisies.  I like to think about the person who sat down with a few pots of paint and decorated the boats with these little flowers, which will somehow always remind me of the Seventies.

Read the rules!

Gently peeling layers of paint, scintillating colours and golden afternoon light - it doesn't get more attractive than this.

Number 40 and Number 53 don't seem to have been out for a long time, judging by the grass growing up around them.

Sometimes you just can't resist adding yourself to the picture.

On the way back to Betty's Bay I noticed this arrangement on the front veranda of one of the beach houses.  Possible title - Still Life with Pink Watering Can and Blue Bench, perhaps ?

Car brakes hastily applied, car coming to a standstill in a cloud of dust and me leaping out to snap this interesting shop tucked at the foot of the mountain.

And it's back to Betty's Bay for a glass of wine and a barbecue while taking in the beauty of another spectacular sunset.