Always expect the unexpected on a #wednesdaywalk

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So it was raining and we took a walk on the beach.
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The birds didn't mind the wet and neither did some others.

We are expecting cold and wet weather for the rest of the week, as winter has finally landed. I don't know many people who will go out in the rain, but for us it is an adventure. It is also seen as an adventure by some others as you will see below.
Come walk with us and let's see what we can get with my camera.

This is a #Wednesdaywalk post and it is also suitable for #featheredfriends as there are some birds in it.

What? A kite surfer was out in the wind and further out there was a sail surfer.
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This was the kite handler crashing through a wave.
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Look how the side wind lifted the sail surfer out of the water.
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Just to show you what the light was like and it was pretty dark.
Not very good for photography, but I think I did okay.
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A shot further to the left of where we were standing.
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Things were getting a bit more serious regarding the rain, and it was time for us to pull out.
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This Cormorant had the same idea, and I waited for him to fly across the face of the signal mountain.
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So yes, we are not quite mad to go out in the rain, and at times we are lucky to see some action when we are out at the beach. Like today for instance as many others also enjoy the conditions in the rain and the wind. The birds, of course, are all out to eat whatever they can get as they know the night is going to be cold. They need full tummies to endure the conditions. I feel for the people in the poor areas as Winter is always a struggle for them, but we do what we can to support the feeding schemes.

I hope you have enjoyed the pictures and the story.

And That's All Friends.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX70HS Bridge camera.

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Very Good Photos!
Have an Amazing Wednesday!
🙋🏻‍♀️👍🏼🏝️👍🏼🙋🏻‍♀️

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Thank you and hope that your Wednesday is also good 😊

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Thank You!
👍🏼🏝️🌄🏝️👍🏼

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Talk of snow in the mountains throughout the country once again, sure looking forward to the cooler weather, fun being out when not many venture beyond their door.

Water sports never affected by weather, these guys are out most days!

Cool photography on your Wednesday walk!

@tipu curate

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Yes and we are also expecting snow on the mountain tops here. Nice cold and wet today and our highest temp for the next two weeks is ideal at - 20C.
Best times to go out methinks.

You are right and I love how they handle the wind and the waves, That Atlantic water is icy cold, but they all wear body suits that protect against the cold. The only place when I walk in the water and my toes turn blue, so I think that I have chameleon toes that can change color to suit their surroundings :)

Thank you Lady Joan and glad that you appreciated the post.

!BEER !PIZZA !LUV !WINEX !LOLZ

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Cold enough especially when living inland without anything to heat the home, my sister said they are feeling it already. Down here in Durban it never gets that cold, always welcome the change.

Pity we don't place powers that be in white jackets that slowly squeeze them blue, not chameleon blue either, for those who do not do what is right by the people!

As long as the toes turn pink after being blued out you OK 😅

!LBEER
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Oh yeah, we often went down to Durban during the Johannesburg winters. Felt like another world.

Hahaha, maybe orange overalls will suit theM better.

Yep! It will be a real worry if they stay blue.

!BEER
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Happy Friday, another warning of heavy rain tomorrow with possible flooding.... Really hope not..., this place has not recovered yet irrespective of what media tell you!

Water tankers still doing the rounds where areas have no water, if ESKOM switch off electricity (still intermittent with repairs ongoing) we have major problems with water filling reservoirs, still being repaired or replacing burst pipes.

Assistance from outside provinces in search and rescue returned home this week, still missing around 88 people with 448 dead recovered at last count.

!BEER cleaner and safer to drink 😃
!PIZZA to warm up the tummy....

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Yep! I saw the scenario in the news and I also saw that KZN will have much loadshedding.
I don't know why they cannot increase our province's power cuts and rather spare you guys, as a lot of repairs have to take place there.

A real slaughter methinks.

!BEER
!PIZZA

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Me thinks we down the sluice no return, led by unqualified poepol's, blind leading the blind patting each other on the back.... Ja/Nee

Now wet, real heavy rain so far all morning with wind chilly 19C with some lightning, no work will resume in these conditions irrespective.

So many not housed now in for a cold few days!

!LUV
!LOLZ - If we don't smile we cry!

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We have just been switched back on again and as I opened I saw that there are mudslides again in Umdloti. Lizzie is also worried about her neighbors house, as no repairs have been done there yet.
The new Level 4 power cuts are not good for man or beast.

!LUV
!LOLZ - I am with you.

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Ballito, Umdloti, Pinetown, Isipingo exceptionally hard hit, still battling to get water and electricity from previous floods into our areas.

Please take note, this morning and late yesterday.
Umgeni road flooded.
Higginson highway flooded.
Bayhead and Southcoast road flooded.
Parts of Bluff are flooded.
Parts of Isipingo is flooded.
Pinetown is flooded.
M7 got lot water and mud on roadway.
M13 got lot of water and mud on roadway.
M19 out of Umgeni mud slides and lots of water.

Would love to know where the Zulu Nation Trust Fund - Ingonyama Trust, is in helping the people?

May is normally our dry month of the year going into winter, who mentioned climate change?

!LUV
!WINEX
!BEER

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Makes terrible reading Lady Joan and yes many of these things and even worse are waiting for all of us.
One would think that proper planning will take place, but I don't know so much.

We have another power cut now at 6pm, but I squeezed this reply in. See ya later.

!LUV
!WINEX
!PIZZA

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These are no sports for me, you know that already, but I would hav eloved to join you an this walk on the beach. Love these clouds and the waves.

!PIZZA and !BEER served with !LUV - sounds like a very lovely dinner :)
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Yep, I know that it's no sports for you, but I just had to show what was going on at the sea on a rainy day.

In a few years time I will wait for you to arrive in the van and then we will visit all of my places 😉

Cheers and thanks.

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Yep, and it's cool ... to view. I have a friend in Canada who also takes photos of surfers - in Winter, in Canadian Winter 🌡️
As said in my other reply - 182 hours nonstop driving and I'm there, but I don't even need a van because I don't have any time to sleep anyway 😉

!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
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True and maybe your friend in Canada has some African blood in him 🤣
182 hours are a breeze Hannes and I am sure that you can do it 😉
Glad that you are working things out, as it shows that you are thinking about doing it 😁

Cheers and thanks.

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I'm good in planning, but most of my plans don't work the way I plan them 😂😂😂

!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
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Beautiful photographs @papilloncharity 😊
Every weather has it’s on beautiful moments, as long as it’s not toooo crazy.
Great captures especially the cormorant.

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Thank you kindly @littlebee4 😀
Hahaha, the crazier the weather, the better for me as I am a man of extremes.
I was happy that I got the cormorant in front of the signal towers.

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You are so welcome @papilloncharity 😁👋🏻
Hahaha really… a man of extremes. Do take care 😁

It’s such a stunning shot of that bird. It could well be a print in a catalogues.

!PIZZA

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Hahaha, yes, I was classified as extreme and it's a long story, but I live with it 😉

Well, start a catalogue and you can have the photo 😊

!PIZZA

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Ooo stories… maybe one day 😉

Could be an interesting project, making a catalogue with great photographs.
From Hive users… thinking out loud 😎

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Yeah, a good idea and many hivers will love it methinks 😉

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Or even turn it into a calendar and the profits go to your charity.
A contest first to get 12 photos… and hhhmmm interesting thought do pop up here.

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They call the thoughts entrepreneurship in the planning stages and you certainly have some very innovative ideas. To put it into action though will be difficult for me, but I have some friends here on hive that I can ask if they know how to make a calendar.
A different photo can be placed above every month accrediting the 0wners and I think that it can be a winner for 2023. Brilliant idea! 😊

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We sure could create it… many options online nowadays for a calendar. I have a printshop for my art and photographs so it is nothing new. Just a calendar option I have not. But there are companies out there that can help. Even create one on demand. So you don’t have to buy say 1000 calendars. A buyer can order, they create it and send to the buyer.
I helped many moons ago making one for the classic mini club. It is doable. 😎

Exactly, one photo per months and a credit the photographer. And to get really good ones we could hold a contest and the best 12 win a spot. Still enough time for a 2023 calendar 🗓

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Some more good ideas here so let me think about it and maybe if you don't mind we can kick it off and see what happens. I like the idea of a contest.

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Great 😁 think about it and let me know 😊
Would be cool a Hive calendar and if it works it could be a yearly thing.
Have a great evening 👋🏻

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I have to figure out a few things first. Who is going to post the calendar? How will the income of the posts be split? Who is going to manage the correspondence (replies etcetera)? and a few other things.

Let me have your thoughts about this 😊

!PIZZA

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Ok, understand @papilloncharity

If we choose one of the on demand printing services… that company ships the calendar when a customer buys it. So no need for stock that way. We provide a link to the finished calendar on their website to order.
Think we also order one first calendar, to see it in real life and photograph for our post to spread the word. “Yearly hive calendar”

If another way, a printing service, we order x amount of calendars. Than we need to do the shipping etc.
maybe after a post how many people would like one. So we can gather initial numbers… more can always be ordered of course.

For replies, we could create a community for the yearly hive calendar, the contest, questions post where we answer questions that is pinned to the top etc.
Happy to help in any way there 😉

Are we including our photographs too? Or just 1 page additional, next to the 12 chosen ones. On maybe this is the charity page info… as that definitely should be included. As your photograph started this hahaha maybe also some info about what is Hive.
Would be nice to make the photographers also a beneficiary in some way. Or if they agree the charity. Or just the rewards of the contest post or … thinking out load.
We need to think about that bit more.

Maybe even go to large department stores if they want to stock some. More ideas popping up. But let’s do some basics first.

Are you on discord? To talk more private.

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Sounds good and discussing on Discord.
Just had the electricity black out back on now.

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Yes, I heard there are electricity cuts…
Do keep warm. 😎

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Dodging the power cuts has became an art and I was up at 3am this morning to post at 5am.
Not easy, but we have to sacrifice at times, even if now I feel like a Zombie.

Thankfully I am not a cold man, but thank you and you also take care 😊

!LUV

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O my 3am… sounds a bit to early to me.
But if it is needed 😎 yes we have to sacrifice sometimes.

That’s good to hear @papilloncharity no cold…
Thanks I will. Rather windy here today.

!PIZZA

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Yeah, never a good time to get up, as in the afternoon one's thoughts shut down and then my wife takes advantage of me 🤣🤣🤣

Thick skin methinks 😘

Fly a kite when it's windy?

!PIZZA

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Hahaha naughty naughty 😜

It was toooo windy, they would not have survived.
!PIZZA

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Naughty no, I like it 😉

Oh yeah, the winds have their own minds 🤣

Cheers and thanks.

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I think you did great in the dark conditions, the wind conditions must have been great for the kite surfer and wind surfer and you got awesome shots of them

those clouds do look ominous good for you to get out of there before it came again

Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :), I truly enjoy exploring the world virtually each Wednesday seeing walks from all around the globe and feeling I am there and experiencing it all myself, such as I did in your post just now :)

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Thank you JJ and over time I have figured out how to take photos at the beach. The surfers love the winds and I think that it is a great hobby. Pity that I am not younger, as I would also be out there.

I depend on those clouds to tell me when it's time to leave !LOLZ

Cheers and !BEER and !LUV to Lulu

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Its good your observant enough to watch the clouds and know when its time to get out of there before the rain, many dont and get caught by surprise

I never tried surfing which is kind of strange as its very popular back in NZ, just never got around to it, but if I was younger i like you would want to be out there

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Even knowing the clouds still leave me getting wet at times JJ, as our weather can change in a few minutes. We are exposed to the moody Atlantic ocean and right next to it is the Indian ocean on our province's coast line. So it's always a matter of "if", "or" 🤣

Same here my friend, but my excuse is that we lived very far away from the sea. Now that we live close to it, I am too old 😉

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Well it’s probably safer just watching them rather than trying it lol

The weather here can change so quick also have been caught in the rain a few times myself

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Hahaha, you are so right my friend. But that itch is always there.

I think that Mother nature teases us with the quick changes,

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Ohh yes a lot safer and indeed Mother Nature dies love teasing us

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Hahahah, you know all about her tricks JJ and I am sure that she giggles whenever she catches one of us.

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Ohh I think sometime sit gets passed a giggle and she breaks out in a wholehearted chuckle LOL

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Ohh yes a lot safer and indeed Mother Nature dies love teasing us

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