?WhaleTale Update?
Dear Friends, I want to thank the person, (can he or she please step forward), who took the initiative to pass my ’Great Escape’ Whaletale Lockdown Update on to our Chief Commanding Officer, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa.
At last, Oom Cyril took note of Tom, Dick and Harry’s gloomy, downcast spirits and that same evening took appropriate action. He addressed his fellow citizens and smartly announced our Level Two. The freedom it affords us is just heavenly, and could not have come at a better time. Hallelujah!
Tuesday at 6 pm, our precious Chiclet was on the first flight out of JHB. We collected her from CT airport where particular COVID-19 protocol allowed nobody inside the airport building for collection. We had no problem to wait outside in the snappy winter weather as our hearts were filled with warm anticipation to be reunited. ?
We spent ten glorious days together as a family and enjoyed every minute. Visiting our favourite places in our Village, coffee and cheesecake, fish and sweet potato chips, shopping, beauty treatments, jogging and long leisure walks along our coastal path and exploring our new neighbourhood. In the midst of all this, Carmen continued teaching her on-line Pilates classes from Hermanus. She asked me to join her as she presented some classes, and I thoroughly enjoyed my first ’on-line’ experience in front of the camera. ?
We also took a road trip to Stanford. There we had some breakfast at the Ou Meul Bakery. Continued to Baardskeerdesbos, (where time stood still), and ended up visiting Tesselaarsdal, (where time stopped many moons ago). ?.
The landscape was picture perfect and welcomed us with patchworks of golden wheat fields; rolling green pastures dotted with sheep and Canola fields abundantly popping with the most electric yellow hue. Takes your breath away! Canola is a cool-season crop in which the optimum soil temperature ranges round about 10°c. The seeds are tiny, and planting is in itself an art-form to get the correct depth and adequate moisture level for optimum survival. Harvesting of the Canola takes place in October and November when the ploughed fields become an assortment of reds and browns peppered with hay bales. Bees are in love with the Canola flowers and the seeds attract all sorts of birds including Bishops and Canaries. The lavish fields are also an ideal breeding ground for our Blue Crane. Oil extracted from the Canola plant is healthy for it is low in polyunsaturated fatty acids and has been approved by the Heart Foundation.❤️
Our Whale Crier is actively blowing his kelp horn at the old harbour in Hermanus. The Southern Rights cow whales with their calves are back in town. Life has become busy again.
All good things must come to an end, so reluctantly we sent our Chicklet off with our blessings, as she reopens her Pilates Studio on Monday. We wish her and her clients the very best for the new season. We are thankful towards our Heavenly Father that we came through this lockdown ordeal mentally more robust and wiser.
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