Early Morning Drive

So I'd intended to go into Durbanville and out the back end into the surrounding countryside - I was in search of cows - but I ended up going through the Du Toit's Kloof tunnel and through its grime into the sunshine on the other end. I'd love to shoot in the tunnel. I'd love to take a scraping from it's thick black walls. But I'd need a gas mask. And I have a feeling it's illegal to stop. And I watched a double tanker petrol truck come through and it had a fire emergency truck that had to follow it. So I drove through to where the sun was up in the other side, stopped for coffee at a dodgey little hole in the wall and then came back over the Du Toit's Kloof pass. I passed baboons - a troupe of about thirty - with the alpha at the back sheperding his females with their clinging babies across the road. And I got yelled at by a big farmer in a Toyota bakkie for stopping on a blind corner (the things we do to avoid making roadkill of wildlife and to get a good photo!) I didn't get any good photos of the baboons - it would've involved getting out the car again and that big boy alpha looked pretty fucking mean. But I got a change to pull over a few times on the pass - I love those rest stops - they always look like relics from the 50s and 60s. And then I saw the coolest limo I've seen in ages. The number plate said Baby Lim and the front end of it was made from what looked like an old Mazda. The back end definitely came from a late 80s early 90s Toyota Corolla. And the middle bit was of an indeterminate origin, but the central door had lights around it, like you'd put up around a vanity mirror. I was way too scared of the mean men inside to ask them if I could photograph their ride but I am wondering if it was worth being safe instead of grateful for a really cool photo.

Enjoy the pics. I was feeling fairly dark this morning. Hence the exposures. If you'd like to see more of my landscape photographs have a look at my website.