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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Those Who Live in Glass Houses…
In our last blog we focussed on plastic pollution and headlined it with an epigraph from Peter Scott, founder of the World Wildlife Federation.
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One Ocean, One Climate, One Future – Together
The heading of this week’s blog is the powerful motivation behind a very important initiative: World Ocean Day. This falls each year on June 8th…
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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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It’s a Shark! It’s a Submarine! It’s a Bathysphere! It’s a …Fish?
Waterfront Charters recommend their Ocean Safaris as the best way to get to see this amazing sea creature. They have an otherworldly look about them, and watching their fins as they wave through the water (the tell-tale difference between a sunfish fin and a shark fin: the shark’s fins cut straight through the water) and then seeing the huge round bulk underneath – incredible.
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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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