Cape Town Dawn
33.90752˚ S, 18.4213˚ E
One of the benefits of jet lag is that it makes it easier to be alert and motivated at otherwise strange times of the day. Here is a 5-6:30 a.m. time-lapse series of the area where SV Coda is docked in Cape Town’s Silo District. Coda appears at the far-left edge of the picture (her mast points like a needle into the brightest part of the dawn):
The drawbridge on the right leads to a more posh part of the waterfront, providing moorage for newly manufactured catamarans and a dozen or so huge sailing yachts. Coda is docked in the last vestiges of a working shipyard owned and operated by a guy who speaks English, Afrikaans, Portugese, French, Italian and Greek, and has sailed around the world four times. The facilities are old and a little cramped, but kept immaculately clean.