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This penguin was photographed by Chris Jooste on his visit to the Stony Point Nature Reserve in Betty's Bay which is home to a colony of African Penguins. Also present at the colony are the Crowned, Cape and Bank Cormorants as well as Hermanus's common furry friends, the Dassies.

A cleaner, greener Whale Festival

Raphael da Silva

This year’s Whale Festival promises to be markedly cleaner and greener than last year’s festival, with significant investment in garbage collection and clean-ups as well as a moratorium on some plastic materials, say Jeanette du Toit, Chairperson of the Hermanus Whale Festival.

Three programmes have been set up this year to achieve this aim. The first is the Old Harbour Clean Up. Once a day, at least 15 children who are with their parents in the Old Harbour will be recruited to clean up the area.

While picking up the garbage, each garbage type will be analysed to educate the kids on just how long it takes to decompose and the damage it does to the environment. Each child will receive a juice and T-shirt while CapeNature, Dyer Island Conservation Trust and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will provide experts to teach the children.

“What we learnt last year is that it is not just about littering; it’s about educating our youth to protect our oceans,” said du Toit.

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