Conundrum. What has six arms, two legs, three hearts, a foot next to its head, a beak, breathes water and has two thirds of its brain in its arms?
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Unsung Ocean Heroes
This week’s Waterfront Charters newsletter is an appeal. Any person who is acquainted with our company will know that one of our most important underpinning values is the protection and conservation of our oceans.
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Blue Horizons
Those of us lucky enough to live within sight and sound of the ocean may be forgiven for occasionally taking it for granted. After all, there it is, blue or grey, every day, starting where the land ends and just stretching out to the horizon.
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Plastic Free July; Plastic Free Forever
As the world looks towards the ending of the current Covid-19 scourge – and like everyone else on the planet we hope it’s soon and permanent – Waterfront Charters would like people to focus on another scourge…
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A Waddle of Penguins
When watching an African penguin sporting gracefully in the Atlantic, or visiting one of the two land-based colonies that exist (at Boulders Beach in Simon’s Town and Stony Point in Betty’s Bay on the opposite side of False bay), it’s unlikely that your first thoughts will be of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
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What Lies Beneath: Not a Horror Story
We get glimpses of that underwater world when some of its more adventurous creatures hit the surface. The southern right whales, the sunfish, the occasional shark, the pods of elegant dolphins, the playful seals and the penguins that transform from little waddling clowns into astoundingly manoeuvrable torpedoes in the sea.
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Beware the Plastic Planet
Recycling and reusing are no longer just alternative options for tossing plastic waste away. They are absolutely vital interventions. The more plastic that goes back into the system, the less that needs to be manufactured fresh each year.
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