Platboom: Click to enlarge ...
A deceptively easy amble along Neptune's Diary and Pegram's Point from the Cape of Good Hope, the first stop on the Western side of Cape Point is an enigma. Renowned for its dunes — visible from the Cape, it offers far more; best captured in slightly surrealistic or impressionistic tones. Facing onto the Atlantic and subject to winter's worst, Platboom is a place of contemplation and solitude best visited when foul weather is matched by a good mood ...
Platboom: Click to enlarge ...
Across the dunes, which apparently 'feed' those of Hout Bay and are home to ostrich and buck, the coast meanders past a prime surf break, minor inlets and bays to Gifkommetjie. It's one of those few spots you can spend a couple of hours or the whole day and leave satisfied at having visited or experienced it.
An appropriately dissheviled memorial erected at the surf break by Bobcat reads:
Dedicated to those who loved the sea and shared the joy and rhythm of its breaking waves. May you all be swimming with dolphins and mermaids as well as riding epic tubular swells: Keith Cottrell • Reney Rogers • Alex Macum • Simon Dickinson • Deano Pneumatikatos • John Willis • Nic Voster • Kevin Munnik • Schalck Burger • Kevin Dennett • Andrew Grendon • Martin Cornish • Jacque van Heerden • Kenny Liston • John Hawkins • Greg Berzelman • Clinton Bradfield • Patrick Sparg • David Bornman • Glen Haytiead • Tony v/d Heuvel • Justin Thomas • John Whitmore • Greg Wright • Bruce Cordy • Matthew Hough • Jason de Lange • Wallace Smith • Wayne Castle • Mom • Dad • Sister • RIPPlatboom is one of those places; to remember or not forget.
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