There are beaches on the cape and then there are beaches. It’s amazing how places as different as Zanzibar and Muizenberg can yield a similar pull. The ocean is the ocean, and the water meeting the land has the same powerful effect on the psyche.

The joke is that Germans love coming down to Cape Town because of the weather and the sun and the beaches. I can’t fault anyone who would do so; there’s a relaxed vibe and non humid conditions.

At the end of the day, the beach is. History and culture can influence and lean it a certain direction, but the base can’t be moved. You’re on the edge of earth, where it meets the ocean. I don’t think it matters who you are, how many years you have, where you hail from. All of that is insignificant to the power of the ocean. In more ways than one, it’s one big beautiful amazing world.