It is not often that two beacons in Stilbaai are as open and ‘exposed’ like this past weekend (14 – 16 July 2018).
Friday the 13th July was New Moon with Spring Tide on Saturday / Sunday which means the water was extremely high with high tide and very low during low tide.
The monument, or referred to as ‘The Steentjie‘ by locals, at the west beach (close to the harbour) was completely open while the Preekstoel on the far east also had no water around it.
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Woensdag, 27 Junie 2018 – ’n Pygmy Sperm-walvis het vanmiddag (Woensdag 27 Junie) op die strand tussen Lappiesbaai en Preekstoel uitgespoel.
Volgens Jean du Plessis van CapeNature, kon hulle nie sien of sê wat die rede is nie, maar dit lyk of daar merke aan die walvise se lyf is.
Lede van die NSRI Stasie 31 en Du Plessis het met die reddingspoging gehelp om die walvis terug in die see te kry.
“Ons sal die kus môre dophou vir ingeval hy weer êrens uitgespoel het. Dit gebeur soms, maar hier op Stilbaai is dit maar die tweede een die afgelope 10 jaar.”
Berig: Suid-Kaap Forum
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Tuesday (12 June) – The Stilbaai community is relieved that Corné Schabbort and his daughter, Marianne, were uninjured after he was forced to make an emergency landing with his Mohawk aircraft in the Goukou River when the engine failed after take-off from the airstrip.
The aircraft was retrieved with the help and assistance from the NSRI, iALA and Groenewald Construction.
Although drone ‘pilots’ have to make sure they know the legislation regarding the flying of drones, it is quite nice to experience the happenings of the afternoon via this video by Sam Barton.
Visitors will notice that animals like buck, tortoises, snakes and other ‘wild’ (non-tame) animals are regularly spotted in town. Nature Conservation or the local snake catcher are on speed dial to remove an ‘unwelcome’ visitor from a house to relocate it while bokkies graze or cross the streets in broad daylight.
Neil Marwick took this beautiful photo of his bush buck visitors recently and commented: “Granny, aunt, granddaughter and mother sharing breakfast of apple, carrot and vegetable trimmings.”
So, if you are driving, please be on the lookout for these ‘locals’ as well as tortoises as Stilbaai loves having them here!
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It is so nice to see a post by the South African adventurer and explorer, De Bruyn Joubert, who visited Stilbaai during April. He is currently busy with a five-year adventure across all seven continents and has visited Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.
It looked like him and his wife loved Stilbaai and they were amazed by the sea life.
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