{"id":4282,"date":"2009-09-24T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2009-09-24T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T22:03:01","slug":"whale-of-a-whale-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/whale-cottage-portfolio\/whale-of-a-whale-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale of a Whale Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The 18 th annual Whale Festival in Hermanus starts today, and runs until the weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the years the Whale Festival has been good for tourism, and\u00a0accommodation establishments, restaurants and retail outlets all benefit from the event.<\/p>\n

The focus of the Whale Festival is to celebrate the marine richness of the region, with talks by local experts on marine topics.\u00a0\u00a0 Wally the Whale (?!) will be present as well.\u00a0 Classical music treats, an ABBA-style concert, a boxing tournament, a half marathon, kid’s morning market, winetastings, car show, lifestyle expo, as well as the Southern Right whales, are on the menu for the weekend.<\/p>\n

The Hermanus Whale Festival is using the same logo and slogan as it did last year.\u00a0 The slogan is inane: “Hermanus, the place to be”!\u00a0\u00a0 In a special advertising supplement in Die Burger <\/strong>last week, the “Cape Whale Coast” had\u00a0a three-quarter page full colour advertisement, which is very poorly designed, trying to depict what the area offers – whales, penguins, wines, sharks, fynbos, golf, beaches etc.<\/p>\n

A disturbing report in the Hermanus Times <\/strong>is that there are fewer whales in Walker Bay this year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So far only 45 whales have been counted.\u00a0 The norm is to count over 100 whales in October and November.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Local whale experts believe that the whales have been delayed in coming to Hermanus, and are on their way.<\/p>\n

Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 18 th annual Whale Festival in Hermanus starts today, and runs until the weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the years the Whale Festival has been good for tourism, and\u00a0accommodation establishments, restaurants and retail outlets all benefit from the event. The focus of the Whale Festival is to celebrate the marine richness of the region, with talks by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[75,21,241],"tags":[32367,2244,2241,2243,32377,2239,2237,1844,13,2236,2242,2240,1560,2245,2238,32373,1203,53],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t