Knysna

Knysna is set in a bay area with a 100m wide gorge where the tide goes in and out all day long. Each cycle includes the equivalent of 20’000’000 elephants running in and out. As an engineer I was fantasizing about the potential of a tide power plant which could provide electricity to a lot of people and create jobs in a country with 30 percent unemployment. Increasing sea levels could be controlled and low lying properties saved. But the powerful yacht club is apparently against it and all rich decision takers in the city are yacht owners. The views from the heads east and west of the gorge allow you to see where Vasco de Gama sailed past and the whole lagoon inside, the smart neighborhoods and in the hills the townships. It was here where I met Michael and George. They know each other from England where they used to work in the same bar. Michael showed George is home country New Zealand and now George was returning the favor with taking him around South Africa. For the next two weeks I was traveling with them all the way up to Mozambique. There good guys with edges.