Gordons Bay Dune reclamation Project

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Arnold of VULA environmental Services to the city of Cape Town kindly explains candidly exactly what is happening to our lovely Gordons Bay surroundings and our beaches.
Arnold is a real gentleman who is proud of the difference Vula & the Municipality are making to promote and protect our environment, so give him an ear - perhaps come chat to him and his team.
They're a friendly team!
Let's be informed and active in supporting and promoting this project - its about 3 years of work providing local employment. We all look forward to enjoying easier access to our beach and being in a safe and beautiful place.
I encourage comments being made about actions here. But please note, I have absolutely no political affiliation nor any such interest in discussing such, my interest in this area is in our community and nature conservation.
To call this a "white" beach would be completely inaccurate, however there have been rapes and murders of people on our South African beaches (as far as I know none in Gordons Bay) - no one has mentioned in this discussion (or any other in my presence) their ethnic origins, however, for the greater good of the community I do feel this action - though certainly not "perfect", it is for the greater good of the generally socially free and mixed community. Hopefully we will learn constructively from our mistakes.
Again. Politics is of no interest to me at all.
The economics appears to be handled reasonably well here and is evidenced by what I am proud to call "the pleasantly mixed community we live among here in Gordon's Bay."
The use of Cape indigenous marine fynbos has been a credit to the research and insightful development in this area.
We can but hope such positive input continues.

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19 май 2024

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@nellwhiteside3042 28 дней назад

Thank you for doing this. It looks as tough they are planting fynbos. I lived in Gordon's Bay and it was dangerous to walk along the duned section of the beach - as are large parts of south Africa now.

@gougaldougal 28 дней назад

San Francisco would be worse - the world is in a pickle lets face it, we do what we can to cope.

@nicholasbell9017 Месяц назад

This is very curious to understand, as an outsider. Pushing a naturally occurring dune system back into the ocean, constructing sand-trap barriers then replanting. Then repeat ad infinitum... Just because there were certain "elements" living in the dunes that made visitors to the beach feel unsafe. All the sand bulldozed into the sea will come back for certain, especially with those high onshore winds. All this pseudo -environmental enhancement looks to me like a trumped-up excuse to evict undesirable (possibly black) squatters from bothering (possibly white) visitors enjoying the beach. Objectively, It would be interesting to know the source of the money to pay for this. In UK, I was for a while involved in a project to replenish sand dunes and we used artificial permeable fences to trap wind- blown sand, and planting Marram grass to consolidate the sand. This thing does not make sense to me, apart from the need to shift the naughty people, it is pointless. Another reason to not come to South Africa.

@gougaldougal 29 дней назад

actually to call this a "white" beach would be completely inaccurate, however there have been (very rarely & over many years) rapes and murders of people on our beaches - no one has mentioned in this discussion (or any other in my presence) their ethnic origins, however, for the greater good of the community I do feel this action - though certainly not "perfect", it is for the greater good of the generally socially free and mixed community. Politics is of no interest to me but economics is handled reasonably well here and the evidence is demonstrated by what I am proud to call "the pleasantly mixed community we live among here in Gordon's Bay." The use of the typical Cape indigenous marine fynbos has been a big credit to the research and insightful development in this area.