“It’s just piddle,” Judy Dixon says when it starts to rain on us at the Swartvlei beach (Sedgefield) on our way to Gericke’s Point — instantly putting paid to my feeble attitude towards wandering around sand and rocks in the dark and getting wet nogal.

I am on the famous Judy Dixon moonlight meander excursion, something that has been on my bucket list for years since I came to live on the Garden Route ... and it turns out to be even more exciting than I imagined — after a while nobody even notices the drizzle...