Llandudno Beach

This guide to Llandudno Beach in Cape Town starts with the tanker Romelia breaking apart on Sunset Rocks in a 1977 storm, after a towing cable snapped and sent her onto the coast below. From there it turns to a nightly ritual that has grown on the same boulders since: strangers gathering at dusk with drinks, watching for a flash of green light said to change whoever sees it. Sailors have carried the superstition for generations, some calling it a soul returning rather than a trick of the atmosphere.