2012 Simons Town Navy Festival
This year I decided to make my way to the annual Navy Festival on Friday, instead of Saturday or Sunday, in the hopes that I would avoid the masses. And avoid them I did. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to avoid the rain. Rain drops keep falling on my head... Murphy, you are cruel. A meeting I attended in the morning meant that I only arrived in Simons Town after 11am, and I was hunting for parking as the Lynx did its display. Parking spot found, I set off to see what there was to see... at the sea. . . After an hour of standing on the German Frigate, F214 Lübeck (a BREMEN-class Frigate apparently), while waiting for a South African submarine to demonstrate a dive in the harbour, I was pretty much soaked to the bone. My camera got a wash, and had I brought some soap with, I could’ve had a wash too. I later found out there was a covered spot on the Lübeck that I could’ve stood under, instead of being rained on. Too late now. The submarine dive was hardly spectacula...