Waddle week in the Whale Coast!

Penguin Waddles 2014 at The Windsor Hotel Hermanus

At the Windsor we love welcoming old friends (also known as guests) back again year after year and some of our best friends are those that help us keep our environment and our wildlife safe and the best exponents of these are our friends from Penguin Promises (http://www.penguinpromises.com/) and the Two Oceans Aquarium (http://www.aquarium.co.za/).

Hayley McLellan marches an enthusiastic group of Penguin Waddlers (also known as conservationists) on a grueling 125km trek from Gansbaai to Boulders in seven days.

Along the way they visit Stanford, Hermanus, Kleinmond, Betty’s Bay Strand and Muizenberg stopping off at schools and talking to as many kids as they can educating them about the plight of the critically endangered African Penguins.

In the famous words of Transvision Vamp “I don’t want your money honey, I want your love” and that’s all they ask. They just want you to make a promise to do something to help our environment and to raise an awareness about our penguins. So please if you see our waddlers be kind and give them a hoot and in so doing try think of a simple way you can make a difference to helping our penguins.

There are very few places in the world where you can see colonies of penguins on main land and on island in the same day. Yet again, another great reason to visit Hermanus and the Cape Whale Coast.

Penguin Waddle Route 2014

Penguin Waddlers arrival in Hermanus

Penguin Waddlers 2013 at The Windsor Hotel Hermanus