Preparing for a future of high-flying tourism

Writer: Elaine Davie.

Have you ever yearned to ‘fly through the air with the greatest of ease, like that daring young man on the flying trapeze’? If you have, it’s not too late, irrespective of your age.

Hermanus-based Clinton Lerm of SA Forest Adventures has just launched his latest zipline installation in the Harkerville forests between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay and according to him, his popular Mossel Bay zipline – the longest in the world over the ocean – regularly hosts tourists over the age of 90. (What’s there to lose, might as well throw caution to the wind and live dangerously!)

Not many people have the courage to launch a new tourism project in the middle of a pandemic, but the Knysna project has been a long time in the making – three years in fact. When SANParks called for tenders in 2017, 35 were submitted and Clinton was delighted when SA Forest Adventures’ bid was accepted.

Clinton was one of the tourism roleplayers behind the launch of the #WeAreOpen campaign in Hermanus. Here he poses in our famous yellow frame with Masizole Mnqasela, Speaker of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.

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