Images of Knysna splendour!

Congruency...

This photograph I took fom my W995 yesterday at 5pm. I played 9 holes of golf at Scottburgh CC - after a long, draining and testing week. This picture encapsulated the moment for me. Sunset over a beautiful course, gentle slope down to the Indian Ocean with the last rays of sun illuminating the tools of the trade in the foreground. 18 months ago my life centered in my addiction, the getting and using of drugs and alcohol. A moment like this and countless others is lost, never to be reclaimed. Recovery has afforded me the ability to be congruent and savour moments like these for the rest of my life..

God's painting

This is the place I have called home for the last 18 months, Scottburgh, Kwa Zulu Natal. This is a picture of the main beach.. Having spent the last 8 years on the Western Cape coastline, it took me a while to stop comparing this place to the unspoilt splendour and rugged beauty of the afore mentioned areas. This picture after uploading it recently to my PC from mobile, took my breath away, and made me realise how me pre-conceived judgment and diseased sense of always wanting to compare stuff to the past, almost made me miss out on what's right in front of me - GOD'S PERFECT CREATION!

My special hideaway...

The inhabitants of this cave was a gay religious fanatic that followed the Voice of God from Vereeniging, in that he'd be led to the promised land - finding this abandoned cave - with living quarters and running water!!! Two meth junkies that ran away from a treatment centre not far away and a vagrant whom I sat with smoking huge marijuana joints rolled in newspaper, who told me his whole lifestory spanning 60 odd years.. from birth through school, the apartheid era, the Angolan war and the circumstances that led to him giving up on society....

The light at the end of the tunnel...

This, as with the previous picture, was taken on the magical Garden Route of Southern Africa. The picture over the Knysna Lagoon was taken in an opiate induced haze as with this one... This one is very symbolic though as the tunnel leads (train not running anymore) through the mountain to a mystical mountain grotto converted into a tea garden which is inhabitated by vagrants and kept in pristine condition! Nevertheless the light I was searching for so long in my life has always been within my reach, the stepping through towards it, was up to me... This cave is in the Kaaimans Pass in Wilderness...

Mobile Phone Photography

Image taken with Nokia 6680 at sunset over the lagoon...