Sardines

I wait in anticipation for the annual sardine run. Since moving back from Cape Town it has been disappointing, with smallish runs on the south coast but none of the stories of legend. In fact I was beginning to think the the legend was just that. But this year has changed my attitude, and the little silver fish have made a huge showing.

I am still waiting for them to wash up on the Durban beach front so that I can see for myself the stories I have heard. For the sardine fever is not a thing of myth, I have been parked in enough times in the past weeks to realise this. I do want to see normally rational grandmothers running into the ocean and scooping sardines by the skirt full!