Bay enjoys quiet, 'local is lekker', festive season
It was a mixed Christmas box for Nelson Mandela Bay this festive season with tourism figures down, yet some restaurants and marine excursion operations reported bumper business.
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It was a mixed Christmas box for Nelson Mandela Bay this festive season with tourism figures down, yet some restaurants and marine excursion operations reported bumper business.
Wilderness Foundation Africa has been appointed to lead the drive to develop a climate-smart Nelson Mandela Bay — and to help it formulate a strategy, it is appealing to the people who know the metro best.
Having weathered this year’s tiny turtle storm which saw mass strandings of hatchlings up and down the coast, Bayworld’s rehabilitation team is now busy with returning flotillas of fit and healthy young loggerheads to their ocean home.
In just 17 years it grew from an infant farm stall to a 220-seater country restaurant and now it is time to hand the bustling teenager over to someone else.
The land invasion drama at Papiesfontein near Jeffreys Bay unfolded further at the weekend with the newly formed Greater Kabeljous Partnership cutting off a gate lock installed by Kouga ANC councillor Wayne Petersen, accused of occupying the land illegally, and leading a site visit walk through the area.