After I wrote my little piece on sports apparel I've seen here, I saw a Charlotte Hornets jacket on the drive home last night!
Fall has definitely come into effect here, the temperatures have really dropped within the last few days. About what it would start to be late September in Boston. But in comparison to some of the extreme heat I've felt here, it felt pretty cold.
In addition to the weather change, the ocean has been really rough and unbelievable to watch the last few days. There have been some incredible waves along the entire South Coast, some 20 ft or so high. We've been watching from The Estuary, as the tide covered the entire Port Edward beach yesterday, and the estuary into the hotel area was overflowing. The waves spanned the entire South Coast, beyond Durban and further north, and have been the news story of recent days, as tidal waves and flooding have done some serious damage to roads and houses in the coastal towns. The waves and ocean shift is due to some gravitational changes - apparently, last weekend the sun, moon, and earth were all aligned in such a fashion that only happens every 18 years causing the rough seas and waves.
In other news... American news in South Africa, Oprah opened her second school in South Africa last week in nearby Kokstad, which is really close to Bizana. I happened to be driving through Kokstad on Friday afternoon on my way to the Drakensberg Mtns, but didn't see an entourage flowing through town... Found a few articles about it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17645539/
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=105&art_id=vn20070317093202446C236722
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