Knysna folks, the water shortage in the town is critical and if we all don’t do our bit to stay within our level 4 restrictions, there is a good chance that the nightmare of empty taps will become a reality in the next week or so.

It was a Sunday bustling with holidaymakers making it very crowded and undesirable in Knysna to head out to our usual haunts for lunch until I had a brainwave — what literally turned out to be an Edison moment.

It’s school holidays, it’s the Christmas season, and it’s a time of the year when parents should thank their lucky stars that they have children and make the most of every moment with them before they grow up and fly the nest.

That year-end lethargy has settled in and I was stuck this week, not knowing what to write about so I headed for the one place in Knysna that we all go to from time to time for a myriad of reasons … rather like a Garden Route pilgrimage, each of us in sea

In recent years since Covid, art in any matter or form, has been infiltrating Knysna, from mosaic artworks in Sedgefield, to painted surfboards on facilities at Buffalo Beach.

The small town of Knysna makes news for negative reasons, such as water problems, service delivery issues and political turmoil.

If it wasn’t for the docking of the first cruise ship in Mossel Bay for the upcoming summer season, I might never have really explored the area — but thanks to Mossel Bay Tourism I had a whirlwind tour of the greater area.

The first of 27 cruise ships recently docked in Mossel Bay and was welcomed through the harbour’s new R22m cruise reception facility with much fanfare and expectation to bolster the region’s economy.

I first came to hear of Dubai chocolate when a dear friend gave me a bar for my birthday a few weeks ago.

People are crazy, nuts even, about a little train called the Outeniqua Choo Tjoe, which stopped running nearly two decades ago.