Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦 in Elk: "The motorcycle scenes in #T..."

In case you were wondering, the restaurant where Elle works in #TheKissingBooth3 (Dunes) is an actual restaurant in Hout Bay, Cape Town. The aprons are a pretty great product placement. https://www.dunesrestaurant.co.za/

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Dunes Beach Restaurant

Dunes Restaurant & Bar, the only Beach Restaurant on the Atlantic Seaboard!

The motorcycle scenes in #TheKissingBooth were filmed on the R44 between Gordons Bay and Rooiels east of Cape Town, a road I worked on when it was reconstructed in 1998. https://maps.app.goo.gl/N2PEUR9BMPwDyA4u7

The gabion walls and rock barrier walls were built using labor-based construction methods with workers from the local community compensated for how much work they did. So per metre of ditch dug, per gabion basket filled, etc. They intentionally employed many women to do the work, not just men.

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March 15, 2026 at 5:42:45 AM

More about the construction of the road. https://www.jgafrika.com/awards/gordons-bay-to-rooi-els-road/

Fortunately, all records of my level surveying a ditch in a bikini top and shorts were not preserved.

Pity.
That image could do more for promoting civil engineering than all the rest of the pep talks I will ever give.

Bwahahahaha

I'll take that as a "Really. No."

You haven't seen that bikini top. It definitely wasn't health and safety compliant, but I guess I was visible.

The best roadway drainage design engineer I've ever known was simply disqualified from field work in 65+ mph zones because she was 5 ft tall and slender.
There was no way she could meet the minimum visible square inches of high viz fabric required.

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