Eastern Cape Coast

The Eastern Cape sinks into your blood. It does not have the immediate dazzle of places like Cape Town, but after 6 months in this province, I am irrevocably in love. In particular, there is a wildness and emptiness to the coast of the Eastern Cape that I have not seen anywhere else in the world. The sand blows all over you, the water temperature shocks you, then the waves batter you like they don't want you in the water.

Here are some photos of some of the coast near Grahamstown: at Kasouga (50km away, where my supervisor Sarah has a holiday house), and at Chintsa (180km away, at the beginning of the Wild Coast, where there is a backpackers' where there's always a wild party).

(Click on a photo to enlarge.)