Spring is in the air (although we still feel the winter in August) and the flowers are blooming in Stilbaai!
The yellow flowers of the #Bietou (or Tick Berry or Bosluisbessie or Weskusbietou) as well as the white and blue #Blombos and shrubs along the beach are pretty sights along the coast and in town.
#ThingsToDo – do your own flower trip in Stilbaai and see how many different flowers you can see!
(Photo by Juanita van Papendorp via Instagram)
Who said winter in Stilbaai is cold and miserable and rainy where you are spending more time indoors than at the beach or on the hiking trails or anywhere outdoors?
Wrong…
Look at these awesome photos taken by Riël Tredoux while visiting Stilbaai during July and you might agree that there is so much to see and do if you look around you. And if you can not snap it, then just enjoy the beauty.
Look at the photo album HERE
Have a look at the Things To Do section to find a few suggestions.
Get out and explore – no matter the weather!
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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