At Waterfront Charters we absolutely love everything about the ocean. Its majesty, its mystery, its beauty.
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Plastic Free July?
It’s ‘plastic-free July’ we are told, but as you go about your day, it’s unlikely that you will come across much evidence of this. Plastic is just so damn useful.
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Only Five Billion Years Left: Book Now!
Winter sunsets have a propensity for magnificence. Certainly here in the Western Cape…
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Not Just a Day; a State of Mind
World Ocean Day also looks at the lands abutting the waters that need protection too…
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One Ocean, One Climate, One Future.
The Global Ocean, also known as the World’s Ocean. It covers 71% of our planet’s surface, and a full 90% of the biosphere. If that difference confuses you, the biosphere can be described as the worldwide sum of all ecosystems…
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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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Miss Earth South Africa and World Ocean Day: Helping Avert Extinction
Benjamin Disraeli said that there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Sometimes, however, we must turn to statistics to show what Al Gore called ‘inconvenient truths’. Consider these numbers: 71% of the world’s surface is covered by oceans. We have two of these bodies of water washing our shores in South Africa; the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Around 99% of South Africans love the sea (I made that one up, but fault me if you can), but we still don’t care enough to stop polluting the waters. Believe this: 65% of our country’s waste ends up in the sea. That […]
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