A personal experience of living in the Overberg, Western Cape, South Africa. Copyright images: Herman van Bon Photography
Blue Crane is the National Bird of South Africa
FULLY BOOKED (sorry)
(But for September another concert planned with a known musician/storyteller)
Sunday 27 June at 1 PM multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Sarah Blake is performing at Studio98 in Napier.
‘Cape Town-based multi-instrumentalist, Sarah Blake, creates music that makes you feel. Rooted in jazz, soul, blues, and folk, her quirky, charming, and disarming stage presence pulls you into what can only be described as aural ecstasy’.
You are welcome to join.
Limited number of 20 guests.Out- and indoor fire. Bring your own drinks
Cover charge: R 100.00 pp. Only pre-paid bookings (contact us for arrangements: greenc2@me.com)
Cash food counter of renowned Dutch born Chef Jon Daamen (Dutch ‘bitterballen’, Exotic soup and desert)
Headshot of a juvenile Southern Black-backed Gull, locally also known as Kelp Gull.
Well that is what I decided after consulting my bird books.
First I thought it was a Hartlaubs Gull but that one only occurs at the coast along KZN and (partly) the Eastern Cape according to ‘The Complete book of Southern African Birds’.
Now it seems that there is another book which shows that this specie only occurs along the coast of the Western Cape.
South African bird books can be very confusing.
27 June!!!! For your agenda (limited audience so book ASAP): Concert of Sarah Blake at Studio98 in Napier, South Africa. R 100 PP Bring your own drinks. Cash food counter. Concert begins at 1 PM. Cape Town-based multi-instrumentalist, Sarah Blake, creates music that makes you feel. Rooted in jazz, soul, blues, and folk, her quirky, […]
Concert Sarah Blake — Studio 98
(Napier Retirement Village)
Blue Crane is the National Bird of South Africa.
Birds of the Overberg (South Africa)
YouTube from the archives 1 — Herman van Bon Photography
….. always attracts spectators.
Wether she is 82 or 92 years old does not matter: as long as Willemine Liewes from Napier in South Africa can work in her workshop creating the most beautiful bird houses.
She sells them direct and via a book/curio shop along the main road in the village.
