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Good morning, Stilbaai!
Look who peeped through the bedroom window of Kirsty Boyle, owner of Charlotte House Guest House situated on the verge of the Skulpiesbaai Nature Reserve in Stilbaai West. These owls have made their next on the balcony of the house and have been living here for several years now.
Owls are still regularly seen in Stilbaai.
Photo: Kirsty Boyle
SERIOUS SNAKING AT BOSBOKDUIN!
Matthew Taylor captured these two puffadders in Bosbokduin, Stilbaai on 22 September 2019.
Not a sight you will see every day!
WHEN DOLPHINS ARE YOUR VISITORS…
How special is this!
Imagine being on the open sea and these dolphins are your visitors! This is what happened to Lodewyk Hulme in Stilbaai…
17 September 2019
(Vdeo: Lodewyk Hulme)
A LITTLE MIST OVER THE BAY
Winter time in Stilbaai is a very special time…
The rain is always welcome as are the bright and clear days. There are also misty mornings and even days when the mist covers the area for a whole day. These days make for beautiful photos.
This photos was taken by Mister Explores – Lifestyle Videographer and shows a fine line of mist hanging in the air. It also shows the gracious Goukou River and the farming areas.
Beautiful Stilbaai – beautiful photo!
Beautiful winter sunset
Winter time in Stilbaai is time to experience spectacular sunrises and sunsets, like this sunset captured by Johan du Preez.
Follow mystilbaai on Instagram to see more beautiful photos.
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MORRIS POINT, STILBAAI
Morris Point, Stilbaai
Just look at this beautiful photo of Morris Point. The photo was taken and posted by The Atlantic Drone.
Did you know that you can walk from the jetti (close to the corner of Versveld Street and Main Road West) on a paved walkway along the Goukou River all the way to the area of the outdoor gym (just off Waterkant Street opposite the river mouth)? There you can get onto the beach towards the harbour (walk on the beach at low-tide or next to the beach in Skuitpad Road) and then you can walk all the way next to the ocean around Morris Point. The green area on the photo is Skulpiesbaai Nature Reserve.
If you want, you can then walk along the coast all the way to Jongensfontein (between 9 and 10 kilometres) and then even to the Blombosch Nature Reserve (quite a challenging hike of about 16 kilometres)!
It is beautiful and quite an adventure…
STRANGE CREATURE FROM THE OCEAN
What a strange creature this is!
This ‘thing’, for a loss of a better word, was find in the Stilbaai area and Shanelle (@shanellefinucane5) posted a photo on Instagram.
Can anyone help? Send an e-mail to mystilbaai@worldonline.co.za or reply on the Facebook post or on the mystilbaai Instagram post.
In the meantime, please like our Facebook page as we are reaching for 11 000 followers and follow us on Instagram where we share and post about our beautiful town and the Stilbaai area.
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SPECTACULAR VIEWS
There are so many places in Stilbaai with spectacular views!
Like this one from a garden that is maintained by private residents in Stilbaai Heights overlooking the Goukou River..
Beautiful views – another reason why we think Stilbaai should be the Kwêla ‘Dorp van die Jaar’.
(Voting for ‘Town of the Year’ takes place from 26 to 31 May. Please vote then by sms’ing the word STILBAAI to 33157. Up to 30 sms’s per phone number allowed at R1.50/sms.)
Photo: Gregory van Mastrigt (via Instagram)
STILBAAI IS WES-KAAP SE DORP VAN DIE JAAR
STILBAAI is die Wes-Kaapse wenner van Kwêla se Dorp van die Jaar-kompetisie en is nou een van nege dorpe wat vir die kroon gaan meeding.
Nadat Stilbaai aanvanklik genoeg stemme ontvang het om ‘n semi-finalis in die Wes-Kaap-streek te wees, is daar Sondagaand (31 Maart) aangekondig dat Stilbaai meer sms-stemme as die ander twee semi-finaliste, Worcester en Bredasdorp, ontvang het en dus die wenner van die Wes-Kaap is. Dit is ook die eerste finalis wat in vanjaar se kompetisie aangekondig is met die res van die agt streke se wenners wat die volgende paar weke aangekondig sal word.
Wanneer al nege dorpe op Kwêla gewys is, sal die publiek van 18:00 op 26 Mei tot 12:00 31 Mei 2019 vir die wendorp kan stem. Daar word tot 30 sms’e per nommer toegelaat. Die wendorp word op 16 Junie 2019 op Kwêla aangekondig.
Wie kwalifiseer?
Enige dorp in Suid-Afrika of Namibië kan benoem word, mits dit:
- Minder as 500 000 inwoners het
- Nie ’n streekswenner in die laaste twee jaar was (2017: Mosselbaai, Margate, Nespruit/Mbombela, Hoopstad, Tzaneen, Vanderbijlpark, Barkley-Oos, Van Zylsrus, Gobabis. 2018: Fochville, Wakkerstroom, Jeffreysbaai, Montagu, Upington, Mariental, Parys, St. Lucia).
- Vorige wendorpe mag vir 5 jaar na hulle as wenner aangewys is nie weer deelneem nie (Sabie, Fouriesburg, Middelburg, Hentiesbaai, Mosselbaai en Jeffreysbaai.).
Volgens Kwêla is die wendorp die dorp wat die meeste sms-stemme ontvang het. Die wendorp kry ’n ongelooflike R1 miljoen se bemarkingswaarde van kykNET. Homebrew Films, die vervaardigers van Kwêla, sal ’n 45 sekonde advertensie oor die dorp maak, wat gedurende kykNET se advertensietyd uitgesaai sal word. Daar sal ook ’n groot KIA dorp van die jaar-makietie in die wendorp gehou word – musiek, kos, pret en sommer baie van daai wendorp-gees! Kwêla sal weer daar wees om dit te verfilm, en dit sal later die jaar uitgesaai word.
Hier is die program wat Kwêla oor Stilbaai gemaak het.
#JouKwêlaDorp
FLAMINGOS SPOTTED IN STILBAAI
WOW! Look what blogger Eveline Dietz spotted in Stilbaai during February – flamingos!
“Flamingos outside Bosbokduin in the Indian Ocean,” she posted on Instagram. (The Bosbokduin area overlooks the ancient fish traps at Skulpiesbaai on the one side and the ocean and coastline towards Jongensfontein about 8 kilometres away to the west.)
Well spotted, Eveline and thank you for capturing this and posting it!
If you would like to comment about this rather unusual sighting, click here.
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