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State of the Coast: KZN
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State of the Coast: KwaZulu-Natal Chapter 1: Introduction & Background Chapter 2: Overarching Drivers Chapter 3: Climate Variability
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The Profile of the KZN Coast

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25 Aug 2020

Destiny Island helps beautify Whale Heritage Route

Nothando Mthembu ( Southlands Sun) Picture: Helga du Preez (Sodurba Chairperson), Sibongile Ntetha (Durban Tourism representative), Charmaine Du Toit (Toyota Boshoku South Africa), Robin Opperman and Ujala Sewpersad (Umcebo Design), Selwin Swartz (Fabricon Holdings) and Mathew Buck (CMH Kempster South).

Educational initiatives and art projects, such as the creation of Destiny Island on the Bluff, aim to promote conservation as well as be an attraction along the Whale Heritage Route. Initiated and re-launched by Sodurba Tourism CTO, her armature was constructed by Fabricon Holdings with additional sponsorship from CMH Kempster Ford South, as the two anchor sponsors.

Destiny is Sodurba Community Tourism Organisation’s (CTO) second public art piece, from the Welcoming of the Whales Festival. The piece is 3m long and was designed by Umcebo Design.

“We built the piece with the learners at Eden College using a design by Mike McFadyean and are so pleased to see Sodurba and Fabricon have installed it so beautifully. An example of effective creative waste management,” said Robin Opperman of Umcebo Design.

The piece is a prized possession to the Bluff’s tourism industry as it not only showcases public art and recycling, but it also educates the public on the importance of whales in the ecosystem and global ecology.

“We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our sponsors and have placed a board acknowledging their assistance, at ‘her’ island, Destiny Island, on the corner of Grays Inn and Marine Drive, Bluff. We would also like to mention a thank you to Toyota Boshoku, South Africa for the beautiful landscaping that they completed at St. Margaret’s Church Bluff as part of an adopt the spot project, which they will maintain and look after.

“Destiny Island is a very important part of our Whale Heritage Route which starts at the Maritime Museum and ends at the view points which have been established along our KZN Whale Coast,” said Helga du Preez, chairperson of Sodurba CTO.

 

 

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