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Turtle Essays Newsletter dated 11.11.2007 Did you enjoy this newsletter? Please tell your friends about it and send them to http://www.zinester.com/mpb/ml_fs.cgi?topic=50058 to become regular readers ** Geoff Fairman is a tourist guide in Cape Town and his greatest joy is to show visitors to Cape Town the city and its delights. Visit Http://www.turtlesa.com to avail of some of the tours on offer. We look forward to hearing from you. ** In this edition Editors Blurb Cape Town today. ** Editors Blurb. Hi there folks. Welcome once again to all my new and regular readers. I am sorry that I have not emailed you in a while but early mornings and getting home late seven days a week from touring all day does not lend itself to the writing of articles. This week I have put together a short newsletter of whats happening here in Cape Town at the moment which I hope you will enjoy. Until such time as the season starts to slow down my communications to you will be erratic so please forgive me if you don't hear from me for a while. Please remember me me if you are visiting Cape Town and allow me to obtain quotes for your tours. Look forward to your emails. Geoff Fairman ** Cape Town today. Cape Town although its not peak season yet is being stretched by the numbers of people visiting our city. It's great and its showing up the discepancies we have to look at before we host the Fifa World Cup in 2010. So what is going on in our city at the moment? On the Cape Peninsula tour which takes you down the Atlantic coastline to Cape Point and the most south western point of Africa we have to make a large detour as the most spectacular part of the tour through the Chapman's peak drive is closed due to some large boulders being dislodged by our heavy winter rains and crashing through catch fences designed to stop their falls. Engineers are busy redesigning the catch fences to improve safety along the route so we have no idea when the road will reopen. Hopefully it will be sooner than later. In the Green Point area work is continuing with the world cup stadium that is being erected. Work is going ahead at high speed, but, as usual there are problems with workers making demands and striking when they are not met, causing some delays. Of course budgets are also an issue with a number of stadiums already exceeding their construction allowances. Politicians are predicting that the stadiums will not be completed on time. We will just have to wait and see how things pan out. Fifa officials inspecting the sites are however happy that all is well. On the nature front things are going well. The annual whale festival along our coast continues with the Southern Right Whales getting ready to start leaving for Antartica. While they are still here they thrill our foreign visitors with their antics, of broaching and leaping out of the water seeming to be full of the joys of spring. On a drive down the False Bay coastline yesterday (Saturday 10.11.2007) I spotted no fewer than eight whales along the St James to Muizenberg coastline all very close to shore. For people who have not seen a large whale before spotting them causes great excitement. Over the past week we have had 1350 volunteer Irish men and women doing the impossible in Cape Town. Their task was to complete 200 two bedroomed houses including plumbing and electricity in a week. When I met their leader (Mr Niall Mallon) in a Cape Town hotel last week I asked him how they would complete the task with the bad weather that we were experiencing, and then answered the question myself when I remembered Ireland is the land of the never ending winter and that its citizens are quite used to working in the rain. As one comedian commented on my visit to Ireland in June this year. “ Were you here in summer last year? he asked ! It was on a Wednesday.” This group of people do such sterling work here in South Africa paying all their own costs and contributing towards materials as well to improve the lives of our poor people. All I can say to them is THANK YOU and keep up the good work. Your concern for our people is greatly appreciated. Last but not least is our very popular penguin colony found near the Boulders in Simonstown. Many of the penguins are in the moulting stage and look downcast, hungry, itchy and very irritable. I suppose that if they were human they would be bemoaning their lot of having to sit it out on a beach for three to four weeks while they shed their feathers and fasted at the same time. Then ! just to top it all they have thousands of tourists (the penguin paparazzi) pointing cameras at them all day seven days a week while they sit and suffer. Oh well ! that's the life of a penguin in Cape Town. Yes folks, Cape Town is a great place to visit and I look forward to your emails which will allow me to quote for your tours in and around Cape Town and the Garden Route. Email me at tourinfo@turtlesa.com for details and quotes of tours that are available. Thank You Geoff Fairman PS Visit my website at http://www.turtlesa.com for articles and tours of Cape Town and the Garden Route ** For my personal details, contact address, warnings and details pertaining to products and tours advertised in this ezine please read the disclaimers which can be found at: http://www.turtlesa.com/Disclaimer.html |
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