Thank you @publicshowsofaffection for creating this sweet little video! Link is now up in my bio for the Back a Buddy link if you feel called to throw a penny in the wishing well 😁🏄🐐🌊🤙
🩷❤️🧡🦅19 year wedding anniversary!⛰️💛💚🩵
Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. - Khalil Gibran
For ever grateful that we are walking this path together. Walking next to @captaintomgray but also dancing and surfing and diving, plotting the next garden or build, planning the crazy big dreams and sinking into slowness, evolving always with two beautiful children, surrounded by all things earth and ocean, through floods and fire, grief, enchantment and joy. Long may these delicious adventures continue🔥❤️🔥🌊💙 (First pic: we made a 19 with kelp and hands and a rock took the photo. Last pic: our wedding on the beach. This is the vibe 🥰😎)
I was stoked to attend the 2025 SA KNEELO CHAMPS in Jongensfontein this weekend!
#kakGat
We had pumping Wave's, saw friends, old and new , good vibes , sunshine and rad prizes! 🌊🔥
A big Congratulations to Steve Cruickshank for taking the win! experience and the new quiver shown thru😉 - absolute Legend! old school schooled us all
Big thanks to all organisers contributor's and competitors, Yeeeew!!!
🌊🙏🤙
#stubbs
#783surf
#kssa
#pkp
#westside
#stubbssurfboards
💙⚡️Last night the ocean came alive with electric blue light! 🌌 And the kids had soooo many questions 😍 Along our False Bay coastline, a recent red tide bloom has turned the nighttime waves into glowing rivers of magical blue. What you’re seeing is bioluminescence—tiny dinoflagellates (🧪Noctiluca scintillans is the species we suspect, but no lab tests have been confirmed - any scientists here to confirm ID?)
The neon blue is triggered when agitated - stirred by waves, footsteps, or fish! Their glow is a chemical dance between luciferin and luciferase, a natural defence mechanism to confuse predators or call in bigger ones. Nature is amazing!!!
Here’s another interesting and important fact, especially for foragers and fishers: not all red tides are the same.
✨ Some are non-toxic—otherworldly to witness, and mostly harmless in themselves.
✨ Others, caused by species such as Alexandrium or Gymnodinium, release potent toxins that build up in mussels, clams, and oysters. These filter feeders draw in whatever the water carries, and during toxic blooms they can become unsafe to eat—even if they look and taste normal. Cooking, freezing, or pickling Does Not remove these toxins. This is why foragers NEVER harvest shellfish during or after a red tide, and always wait for official clearance.
👩🏽🔬So why do red tides bloom?
They appear when the perfect set of conditions align: warm, calm seas, stable weather, and nutrient-rich waters. Some nutrients come from natural upwelling along our coast, but the bad practices of human activities—like sewage, stormwater, and agricultural nitrogen runoff—can also fertilise the sea and feed these blooms. When the blooms are dense, they can light up our beaches at night in neon blue. But when they collapse, they actually strip oxygen from the water, creating an anaerobic environment that can leave fish and invertebrates gasping. In some places, these crashes have caused large die-offs and even crayfish walkouts, reshaping local ecosystems.
The ocean is such a fascinating living space of curiosity filled with so many ecological stories!💙🌊✨ #FalseBay #CoastalForaging #Magic #Science #Bioluminescence #RedTide #VeldandSea
🌍✨Two of the greatest measures of time are plants and kids. Tai turned 18 earlier this month —EIGHTEEN?! ❤️ Im still processing and celebrating this joy. Arty, gorgeous, nature-loving dreamer; best cheese-toastie maker, coffee critic, cat dad, D&D master and eater of books.
🌵⛈️I started labouring 18 years ago in Tom’s succulent greenhouse while writing scientific plant labels: Macherophyllum. Aloe veriagata. Stoeberias, Orbeas, Stapelias. Later that evening, up in the tiny cottage on the hill, a fierce rainstorm blew in our midwife, who arrived running over the wooden bridge across the stream, coattails flying. Early the next morning as the sun rose, Tom caught him as he entered this world. What a blessing to birth and raise children on this land. They learnt how to walk on these fynbos mountain paths, understand what plants will heal and feed, the sound of a snake before you see it, and how the colour shifts in the landscape as the season changes.
It has been an absolute, heart-overflowing joy to journey together and witness his blossoming. Lucky us! We love you across the galaxies and back @whos_art_ist the world is your wild oyster! 🌠🌠🌠
🦦 Otter Trail 2025 - PART TWO
Dolphins, Whales, Otters, Genets, Shooting Stars, Forests, Fynbos, Rivers and so many laughs!
Thank you beautiful humans for a unforgettable trip! 💛💛💛
🦦 Otter Trail 2025 - PART ONE
Dolphins, Whales, Otters, Genets, Shooting Stars, Forests, Fynbos, Rivers and so many laughs!
Thank you beautiful humans for a unforgettable trip! Heart is FULL 💛💛💛
This week I have had the pleasure of hiking the Otter trail, there scenery has been nothing short of spectacular, walking through thick coastal forests with dense and varied shady ground cover and then out into amazing stands of sandy coastal fynbos, crossing lots of streams and Rivers of fresh drinkable water that run into the sea !
The company of my hiking crew has been amazing as well! Everyone has been absolute troopers.
Not an easy hike 😅🙏🙏🙏
🌊☀️JBAY FORAGING ADVENTURES!🪸🏄🏾♀️
✨WildFood Adventure Weekend: 13&14 June
✨Pop Up Dinner: 14 June
✨Coastal Forage Workshop:15 June
@veldandsea in collaboration with
@africanperfection extends a warm invitation to join us in Jbay this June for three extraordinary and wildly delicious events crafted to delight and inspire your senses while nurturing your curiosity for our edible landscape. Returning for our 5th annual visit to Jbay, we are thrilled to offer another series of unforgettable and delectably fun events!
Immerse yourself in beautiful ocean-side accommodations while partaking in immersive coastal foraging expeditions. Explore the coastline and nearby gardens with us to gather seaweeds, shellfish, edible wild plants, flowers, berries, and more. Through stories, taste and immersive experiences we will work with food as a medium for learning, and unlock wonder, appreciation and a renewed respect for our natural environment 🩵🍃✨
PS: bring your board, it’s not just us that’s going to be cooking 😎🏄🏾🏄🏾♀️🏄🏽♂️🤙🏽
• Bookings via link in bio or drop us a DM for inquiries!
#surf #surftrip #eastcoast #wildfood #EasternCape #travelsouthafrica #jbay #jeffreysbay #africanperfection #veldandsea #coastalforaging #natureconnection
🌈❤️🔥🥂🌊 Celebrating 18 years of marriage to this salty sea dog! Two teens and seven dogs, farm life, fynbos magic, floods, fires, and countless delicious adventures — both on land and in the ocean. @captaintomgray , dancing through life with you is beautiful, wild, and wonderful. So many photos and not enough space to post them all, so in no particular order here are some favourite memories and moments xxx 💜💙🩵💚💛🧡❤️
