FOL Chair and one of 4 intrepid Peninsula Paddlers talked briefly to John Maytham on Cape Talk 567 recently.
Here what he had to say. The MP3 file will play (stream) in the player below and is about 6MB in size for those with limited bandwidth.
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Well done to Kevin and the team of paddlers for a great effort. Here are some more shots of the paddlers at the Bridge over the Liesbeek near The River Club
Testing the water at the River Club bridge
It was such a fun thing to do and hopefully we raised some interest and awareness about the state of Cape Town’s waterways. En route we gathered some fascinating stories: great work being done by Zandvlei Trust; private owners along the canal in Lavender Hill and Cafda trying to improve conditions by creating a park alongside; 35 youngsters meeting us on Princess Vlei all in boats loaned to them by Gravity Adventures; conservation of wetlands at Kenilworth racecourse with funding support from Gold Circle; great turnout of Friends of Liesbeek and public on bridge over Liesbeek; environmental education centre at Zoarvlei; and a glorious paddle down the Black River and into the sea at Woodstock beach. All done in 11 hours. Will I and others do it again…yes of course!!
Kevin in Princessvlei
Please have a look at The Zandvlei Trust website for a more complete pictorial of this paddle.
Also see a podcast of the expedition produced by Rory Williams at http://www.men-about-town.co.za
Friends of Liesbeek – 17th Annual General Meeting
Report from the Chairperson: Kevin Winter
Tuesday 11 May 2010
Enviro Centre, Valkenburg Hospital Grounds, Observatory
Dear Friends
It is with some satisfaction that I report on the activities of the Friends since our last AGM. (more…)
This is an adventure that no one else has done or at least in recent times using Cape Town’s waterways as the route. Kevin Winter (current Chair of the Friends) is kayaking from False Bay to Table Bay on 23 May together with 3 other wildcats. The idea is to raise awareness about the state of Cape Town’s rivers. A film and media crew will accompany the team. Various environmental groups will meet the paddlers along the way to talk about rivers and to take some water samples. See the proposed route map attached. More details to follow.
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