End of the breakwater

This is the result of a day trying to shoot whales in Hermanus - the so called Whale capitol of South Africa. I would have had better luck with shooting in my own seaside village and not having to travel 50k's! Anyway the harbour was the most interesting place. I was weighing up between blipping bright orange bouys or the masts of a sunken trawler - or this one!

What is unique about this pic is that the cement dolos (the cement waterbreakers). In the background is the other side of Walker Bay (Hermanus). I can guarantee there are at least 20 whales in this pic if you look very very closely!!


Quoted from Cape Town Daily:
The invention in question is the dolos (pronounced almost like "door-laws" but with very short vowel sounds); these huge concrete blocks, shaped like the letter "H" with one arm rotated by 90 degrees, are used to protect beaches and breakwaters all around the world today. They were invented by one of two men (there is some dispute as to which one) in East London, South Africa in the 1960s. The name is derived from the Afrikaans word for an animal's knuckle-bone, to which these concrete blocks bear some resemblance.