Exciting news for St Helena Bay ... Tasse en matrasse presenters Ingrid Venter and Monique Strydom from Radio Tygerberg 104.0 FM visited our town on Wednesday. Over coffee at Swiss Deli & Bistro Bernie Pols and I talked to them about matters cetaceans (whales and dolphins, ignoramuses) and the aquaculture (abalone - or perlemoen as it's known in the vernacular) operations springing up along South Africa's West Coast.
Next door Monique and Ingrid met LazyCatz Décor & Art owner Judy Smit and Karin Board who are part of the team that makes up St Helena Bay Arts & Crafts & Food Market.
From there to lunch at the four-star Shelley Point Hotel and a full body and feet treatment in their Wellness Centre. A stop at Oystercatcher Lodge, the town's other four-star establishment, then to Waxit candle factory shop (mmm ... vanilla- and chocolate-scented candles are just the thing for New Year's Eve) then to Groenveld Coffee Shop. This converted old fishing smack is moored in Sandy Point Harbour and a great location from which to watch whales while sipping Caffé Macchiato.
A final stop to meet Don and Connie Loubser, owners of Beira Mar (on the sea, dude) Restaurant and then back to the city with, hopefully, good memories of our wonderful town.
On this the eve of 2011 I wish every one of you who has stayed at Dolphin B&B+S/C the compliments of the season; I also wish my friends and family a bumper New Year and I leave you with this thought:
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. Author Unknown
