#Wednesday Walk - At Doonside Beach

This post is for the #wednesdaywalk challenge and the #makemesmile challenge collaboration. This collaboration initially took place once a month, but due to its popularity, @tattoodjay (of the #wednesdaywalk) and @elizacheng (of #makemesmile) decided to make it a weekly thing.

If you want to know more about the rules, visit this week's post by @tattoodjay where you will find all the rules at the bottom of his post after you've enjoyed his beautiful photos from his walk.

Last weekend we had a quick outing on Sunday morning before meeting up with the kids for the afternoon.

My wife wanted to get something from the craft market in Illovo.

We always pass Doonside Beach, going down to Warner Beach, Winkle Spruit, and Illovo.

This time I decided to stop over at Doonside Beach. We didn't have much time on our hands, because, as mentioned, we had an arrangement with the kids for the afternoon.

But making a pitstop at Doonside Beach sparked an idea for me. I would like to start at the top end of Amanzimtoti and work my way down to the southern end in Illovo, doing some posts in the future about the various beaches, places to visit, and things to do in the area.

So, this week's post will be relatively short, but it will give you a glimpse of Doonside Beach...

Doonside Beach

There is a nice, quite big parking area just above the beach.

Just before taking a walk down to the beach, I looked up at the apartment building next to the parking area, and I was fascinated by the small white clouds, with the sun shining brightly on them from behind the building.

Just before going onto the beach, looking down south, you can see the apartment building on Warner Beach sticking out behind the dune.

In the foreground is the Little Manzimtoti River, arriving at the ocean, but first running along the beach and passing behind that dune before mounting into the ocean at Warner Beach.

Zooming in a bit on the dune, with Warner Beach being right behind it. From here (standing on Doonside Beach), taking a stroll of about 150 meters will take you to Warner Beach.

Doonside Beach is normally a quiet beach. Although I believe it is ideal for swimming, during our visit, I found these "no swimming" signs on the beach. Yet, the lifeguards were on duty with their equipment ready for action.

Looking at the lifeguard equipment from a different angle, with some activity visible on Warner Beach in the background. You can also see the tidal pool stretching out into the surf on Warner Beach.

Their board is ready for action. Just to be picked up and run into the ocean...

Standing here on Doonside Beach, I could see a guy who launched his wet bike into the ocean and headed straight into the surf on Warner Beach.

Wanting to get some action shots of this guy...he was so near, yet so far...if you get what I mean. Not having such a powerful lens to "pull" him in for some nice shots, I did the best I could and had to crop the photos somewhat to make him clearly visible...

Can you spot him in the next photo?

Going in deeper, getting behind the surf...

I took the last shot for this post, as he came a bit closer, passing just behind the surf at Doonside Beach.

And that's it for today, folks. Thank you for reading my post!

I do appreciate it!