Have you ever snorkelled in a forest? That sentence may look oxymoronic (at the very least), but it is in fact a perfectly valid question…
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‘…the Slithy Toves Did Gyre and Gimble in the Wabe…’
At Waterfront Charters we absolutely love everything about the ocean. Its majesty, its mystery, its beauty.
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The Evening of the Year
Autumn is, and this will come as no surprise to most readers, one of the four seasons of the year. In the Western Cape autumn is normally seen as a time of temperate weather…
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A Chariot of Fire
One of the most crucial aspects of running a top-class cruise company is understanding the weather that affects our lives in so many ways. We have often written about all the changeable influences that combine to form weather patterns, and we lean on the meteorologists for their insight and predictions.
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Gearing Up for a Chain Reaction…
‘Part of the magic of the Cape Town Cycle Tour was the fact that it became so much more than just a cycle tour. The build-up to the day – originally a Saturday, then changed to Sunday in the mid-80’s – was part of the magic of ‘The Argus.’
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Feedback: The Breakfast of Champions
Over the intervening years Waterfront Charters have built up a fleet of seven vessels, allowing them to provide a vast range of cruises. Their three luxurious catamarans are ideal vessels for sightseeing, parties, events or just chilling out, and they can carry groups of guests from small intimate gatherings up to a 140 happy people.
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Of Celestial Wanderers and Stationary Stars
At 03h00 on the morning of the 21st June, the sun stood still. Nothing to be too concerned about, mind you – it happens twice a year, every year, and has been doing so for around four and a half billion years.
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A Cruise Down Memory Lane
A Coastal Motor Cruise is not necessarily what you first think of when you hear the expression. You could be forgiven for assuming that it’s a four (or two) wheeled drive along a winding coastal road…
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Happy Huntigowk Day
It seems that one of the inbred human conditions is to laugh at others misfortunes. The German expression that has migrated into English terminology…
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Taken Aback in the No-Go Zone
Becalmed. It’s an expression that has been taken from the world of sailing and applied to many walks of life. For the past year or so it feels as if the world has been becalmed as Covid-19’s tentacles reached across seas from continent to continent…
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