Ramsgate Conservancy Newsletter
Ramsgate Walking Tours – Do you have any stories of old to share? Please tell us about them. Pauline and Doreen have been meeting weekly with the WESSA Beach Stewards and Sonwabile, the Tourism Info officer, at the Ramsgate Eco-Tourism Info Office. The team is putting together a series of walking History and Environmental Education tours around Ramsgate. The walks are based on information from the book, Ramsgate Recollections, and whatever other interesting bits of history relevant to Ramsgate’s past, or characters of the past. Included will be a contribution from the colourful and sometimes tragic history of the ski boat fishermen, like the Dickens and Fynn families. If anyone has any stories they think may be relevant, please make contact with Pauline or Doreen. We hope to get this project up and running for the December season. Look out for the notice boards about the schedule for these tours. Say What? As a “lightee” I loved the ocean and was soon drawn in to the world of surfing. Here I discovered that surfing has a language of its own. Consequently, as a “grommet” I would head to the “Out Side” where we would wait for the “set” to come in, hoping to “carve up the wall” and maybe get “barrelled”. “Cool – ne?” A few, yes a JUST a few years on… I have discovered a new language –that of the “Twitchers”. A Twitcher (not to be confused with a serious “Bird Watcher”) is someone who has a passion to see as many birds as possible. You don’t find too many of them locally, but they can be easily identified by their quickly accessible check list which is often attached to their 10×50 binoculars. However holding a conversation with a serious “Twitcher” is where things get interesting as their... read more
