Blame it on who or what you like (striking workers, incompetence, political shenanigans, aging infrastructure, blah, blah, blah), the sad truth is that the South Coast has suffered immense damage because of the ‘drips’ who ‘dropped’ us by disrupting our water supply this past month.
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Suddenly, holiday establishments, which should have been looking forward to coining it these hols, were faced with financial ruin.
And, suddenly, what should have been an easy job, marketing our many Blue Flag beaches, became a nightmare.
After all, who in their right mind would believe any attempt at positive hype to risk their hard-earned money on a holiday in a place with dry taps? Tourism could trumpet that taps are flowing again, but is there any guarantee? And will they continue to do so?
Been there, done that, burnt my fingers the last festive season.
However, just when South Coasters thought all was lost this mid-year school holiday, along come our little silver surfers prepared to sacrifice themselves to rescue us.
Most upcountry people will want a really good reason to pack the trailer and maybe, just maybe, the sardines will do the trick.
At the time of going to print, crate loads had already come out at Kelso, Ramsgate and Pennington.
The buzz at Ramsgate on Sunday was amazing with many seeing this wondrous, natural phenomenon for the very first time.
Suddenly, social media was devoid of ‘still no water’ and ‘hang ’em high’ posts, thankfully now replaced with videos of wriggling sardines on the beaches and shrieks of excitement.
Whether one likes eating fresh sardines or not is a different story, but it really is a sight to behold and holiday people would be well advised to escape the biting cold upcountry. The sun is shining and the fishing is great.
Well, that’s if one actually knows how to fish. One not-so-experienced fishing party headed for the Wild Coast recently. They stocked up with boxes of prawns as they were targeting bronze bream which are apparently quite partial to the crustacean.
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The eager beavers were up at dawn the first day and found the ‘ideal spot’. Two boxes of prawns, countless sinkers and metres of wasted line later, they headed back to their cottage empty handed.
That night, they ended up braaing… the bait.
Back to sards, parched South Coasters… should you get your hands on one, give it a kiss of gratitude, the ‘Greatest Shoal on Earth’ might just save our bacon.
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