Saturday 2 January 2021, Day 5 of Adjusted Level 3, Day 283 of Lockdown. 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a 7 hour solid sleep, much better than my usual 5 hours; a beautiful 27C sunny day, the wind coming up now; so grateful for how clean Camps Bay looks; for being happy that Imtiaz and Carmen are both back at work today, starting their day with tea at my home, their work now deep-cleaning; for an energetic walk through Bakoven and up the lanes in lower Bakoven, I continuing on a Litter Mission of another kind, earning me 500 Discovery points, a number which seems incorrect, as 300 is usually the max 😱; for a later walk to the Camps Bay Tidal Pool, only one couple picnicking on the lawn, so happy to see ‘my’ stream so clean; for Kfm broadcasting road closures news which I sent to the DJ when traffic was closed between Camps Bay and Hout Bay due to another Bakoven fire, with a huge thanks to the fire services for getting it under control; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙

I have received an unbelievable response to the four photographs of the desolate Camps Bay which I took yesterday. I realized this is history in the making, something we’ll probably never see again. There were so many compliments about how clean Camps Bay looks, with some moaners too, of course…. 😱

Today is my second anniversary of starting to clean up the Camps Bay Tidal Pool stream, which led me to broaden my ‘beat’ to all of the Camps Bay Beachfront. 💙

PS Another fire has just started above the earlier one of today. 🔥

SA Corona Status 1088889 cases 29175 deaths 😷😢

FitBit 13000 steps 9 km 👣

Lovemylife❤️

The Corona Virus Lockdown (Level 5), announced by our President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier to commence on 27 March and to continue until 16 April, subsequently extended to 30 April, lowered to Level 4 from 1 May, lowered to Level 3 from 1 June, lowered to Level 2 from 18 August, lowered to Level 1 from 21 September, and moved back to Adjusted Level 3 from 29 December, is an unprecedented event in my lifetime. I am posting my daily Facebook post to journal this Corona Lockdown Journey, perhaps to serve as material for a future Book.

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