First Observations

* she must have been mighty patient, the universe is a huge place. it was impossible to get the grid 100 percentile right. cosmos? maybe yes but in a mandelbrot kinda way. one of them helping with the grid left complaining of pending matrix madness

* she is in the detail. the oranges as markers were too big but somehow helped this observer seeing the smaller picture. some amazing footage previewed - cathy you are one hot camera person

* cohesion is a force of note, even on this scale oranges tended to clump together, firstly in couples. or were these just focus points of all the other vectoral forces? a 'space time potential hole' of some sorts

* off-shore conditions, our 2nd spell of south easter this summer(!), saw most of the oranges staying in the surf zone with a few real swimmers, all of which got driven out again by a suspected combination of wind and wave action

* it got really hectic at parts of the beach sloped steeply enough for gravitation to pull oranges back into the surf

* 1 beach section became a concentration point with 60 percent of the oranges eventually deposited here over a distance of 20 meters. generally most were swept towards the west

* later the kogelberg head marine conservation dude arrived - he got reports from somewhere that a huge amount of oranges are washing up at hangklip, suspecting an overboard container or sunken freighter. he had 5 oranges in his bakkie destined for a lab to determine its origin ... citrusdal i'm sure

(the power of illusion! we only used 30 bags, that is 750 oranges roughly)

* a passing fisherman helped himself to about 50 oranges at the west most point of the beach

* on this occasion we had on location professor petruska clarkson as psycho dynamic advisor, certifying participants sane and having fun

* peoples from bettiesbaai arrived with containers to pick up some oranges after being informed telephonically of the windfall. cell phones speed

* next time no dogs. one of the resident troops of baboons, our hope for a major scoop, according reports got as far as the slipway road. down wind nogal but the many canines probably threw them off-course. i'm holding thumbs for today

* there might well be a next time - a lonely planet crew witnessed the middle 3rd of the experiment, they need some material for a cape town special to be screened on discovery channel...

the b'boons did come