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From Mbokazi’s Audio Reflections

“Immediately when I found out that the pilgrimage was about

water, everything that has to do with water bodies started
appearing in my experience. Lyrics about water started

jumping out at me in the music I was listening to. Articles
about water appeared more often in my browser, and

suddenly drinking water from the tap was not as ordinary as it
was for me before. To the journey, I brought with me my

camera because I wanted to take pictures of whatever would
inspire me along the trip. When we got to Sardinia Bay, I was

in awe by how much the ocean was shaping the landscape;
how the dunes were slowly taking over and covering up the

parking lot. There I took pictures of these strange looking
rocks. They looked as if they had faces, and those faces were
screaming and scared. Of-course the faces on these rocks had

been shaped like that due to weathering by the salts and

acids in the seawater, and this is a natural process, but it is
often accelerated in polluted water. I contrasted these scared
rocks with the joy on some of the pilgrim’s faces as they were

swimming and having fun in the sea. It was as if the rocks
knew something about the water that we didn’t know. Our

next step was the Driftsands Water Treatment Facility. For
me, it was eye-opening to see the process, but I must say I

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