Powerful seas breach St Francis Bay dune, threatening canal homes

The Kouga Municipality was working flat-out on Monday morning to plug a gaping hole in the sand spit on the north end of St Francis Bay Beach where a powerful spring high tide surged through on Sunday evening, threatening multimillion-rand canal properties. A truck was moving up and down the shoreline with loads of sand excavated from lower down the beach, and a fleet of front-end loaders were pushing it into the gap.