Vision Quest,
February 2002, Fish Hoek. During the initial days of this amazing
process, all the participants are given a task, by Judy and Valerie,
that is to be completed in the days before going to the mountain.
Mine is to swim out to the buoy that bobs around in the sea in front
of their house, quite a good distance from the beach and off the cat
walk. I planned it for the Saturday morning, the day before our
departure to the mountains. The idea to swim at sunrise was my own.
And my plan was to sit in stillness on the beach, waiting to enter
the water in the moment that the sun broke above the horizon - a kind
of soundtrack in light to a heroic moment in my journey. An imagined
blue sea on a warm and windless February morning. The
aim of the task from Judy and Valerie’s side was to feel the
support of the water, and the fact that one could flow through it,
supported by it.
At this stage there was very little
public awareness of the danger of sharks in Fish Hoek.
