Wood piles are a dead giveaway that the seasons are changing.

We were on the brink of posting some quirky September Comet photos when a near disaster caught our lens.

We have over the years suggested things to the Demos (municipality), but they always fall on deaf bureaucratic ears. This time, however, we are motivated to shout out loud ourselves.

Like in Australia and South Africa, where there are very visible signs warning bathers against sharks, we should have signs clearly posted, even if it would seem obvious to most, that swimming beyond the buoys is detrimental to one’s health— as in chopped-into-little-pieces-by-a-propeller dangerous.

Yesterday we spotted two lunatics indulging in a swimming race to the little island opposite Baby Beach in Kamini. They got there alright—well done, lads—but damn near didn’t make it back as our photos show.

The almost tragic event was narrowly averted.

The trouble, too, when an accident such as this occurs is that inevitably much of the blame gets directed at the water taxi driver for not having avoided the swimmer. Not only is this unfair—anyone who has piloted a high-speed boat (particularly into a setting sun) will tell you that it is very difficult to see something as small as a head bobbing between the waves—but there is also the guilt factor that cannot be avoided or erased.

A man’s life and livelihood can be unjustly ruined by the stupidity of a tourist (often semi-inebriated) behaving thoughtlessly.

SWIM WITHIN THE BUOYS … BOYS!

A bird’s eye look at what our downtown CBD and harbour front look like.

Seagull sight

Tough old life really when one only has only one pair of shoes to wear for over seven months of the year !!!

Hope it brings some cheer to a troubled world.

So it took a decade of research and development to spew forth the sequel but hey Taa-Daa !! I know that I have always stuck to the plan of Kamini Comet as being a non commercial fun site so this is a selfish grey area, being that this is promoting one’s own literature, but it is also news and fun, being the first book published and written in and about Kamini in goodness knows how long.

Rhubarb! is available on Hydra in hard copy for sale at 14 euro in Hydra’s Historic Archives and Museum on the left hand side as one enters the harbour, as well as at Christina’s Speak Out Boutique in the centre of the port front; Theo at Pirofani restaurant in Kamini has a few too.