Easter in the Overberg!

Ahoy there sailors!

Easter in the Overberg means it’s time for the famous Passion Play to take place at the Old Harbour in Hermanus. This has to be one of the most unique settings for a passion play. People come annually from as far afield as Johannesburg and Pretoria just to come and watch this truly unique event.

What makes it unique you may ask yourself, is the surrounding. Nowhere else in the world will you find yourself in an old harbour dating back a hundred years or so watching the story of Jesus Christ unfold on and around the cliffs of the Hermanus. The event takes place on Good Friday every year and as the moon rises over Walker Bay so the Passion Play begins.

With the sea as your backdrop the story unfolds. What better place to get the full meaning of this massive biblical story?

One of the best things about the Passion Play at the Old Harbour is you get to take along your picnic basket, blankets, camper chairs and the whole family gets to spend some quality time together.

The Passion Play was originally started by Tannie Lisma Kotze in 1995 with little support as nobody thought she could get the town to cooperate and make this a success, and yet now, 19 years later, the event continues to thrive with Fanus le roux as the Producer and Reichard Singleton as the main actor as well as one of the children’s favourites Geelbek, the donkey who’s been a star since the event started in 1995.

For more information and photos visit http://www.passiespel.co.za/ and http://hermanusonline.co.za/index.php/blog-post/hermanus-passion-play-good-friday-18-april-2014.

Here at The Windsor this is core to our belief of a family spending quality time together. With this in mind we’ve developed a very traditional children’s programme at the hotel so that the kids can have a lot of good old fashion fun at the hotel while mom and pop can sit back and relax.

Included in the children’s programme is an Easter egg hunt, musical chairs, pin the bunny tail, colour in competition and many more activities!

Wish you all pain sailing until we meet again next week, same place, same time. 

Winter at the Windsor means its time for the Whales

The huge Southern Right Whales have started to arrive back in Walker bay. Reports of sightings of these gentle giants are starting to become more frequent, and more and more people are starting to see them from land. 

One of the pleasant surprises this year, if you go out on the whale watching boats, is the many reports of viewings of Humpback whales. What a treat to possibly see 3 separate whale species (as it is extremely likely that you will come across Bryde's whales) on the same trip. 

If the seas are to rough to venture out on the boats, well then stay in your room, or take a seat in the lounge of the Windsor Hotel and order a good bottle of wine and view the whales playing in the massive waves that smash up on the rocks of the cliffs in a dramatic fashion.

Winter in Hermanus and at the Windsor is a "best kept secret" time to visit