Victoria bay on the Garden Route, South Africa is best known as the home of surfing. However, the point is slowly becoming the scene of a different love story. Over the last few years, padlocks have been discreetly attached to a railing.
You notice them as you walk to the point: one at first, a shiny brass lock; further on there is another, then another, clustered together. Most are simply covered with a pair of initials, many in the bold scrawl of teenagers.
The locks celebrate the earnestness of first love. The tradition of attaching locks to a bridge as testament of undying love has been around for quite some time – since before the Second World War at least – and now, it seems, the ritual has arrived in South Africa. If South African Antonys and Cleopatras follow tradition, they attach the lock together before flinging the key into the see. This marks the unbreakable bond of their undying love. If the relationship sours or dies, tradition goes, you are meant to dive into the water to find the key. But the locks in Vicbay celebrate transformational love, pulse-bursting, sweep-us-off-our-feet, turn-your-life-around love.
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