Spring Tide #3 Pounding the Breakwater

on a normal day

spring high

Here you see the harbour wall that we posted 2 days ago, being pounded by waves at Spring High, this time from the outside of the wall.

By the way, if you followed the drive we did down the Elands River Valley last week on the Port Elizabeth Daily Photo, and on our personal blogs, the mountains in the background that you see here are part of the Winterhoek Mountain Range that we were travelling through on that trip.

And if you are interested in how this breakwater is constructed to withstand these assaults from the sea, I did a post on the dolosse here.

rusty bits

When the breakwater for the harbour wall was constructed at the Port, tons of rocks that had been blasted from the yacht basin were moved to build it up. To make it easier to move these huge rocks, large metal hooks were drilled into them, so that they could be picked up by cranes. These have now rusted to become a picturesque part of the breakwater.