UPCOMING EVENTS

1. Grant Brooker of Pringle Bay will speak on Eco-pools 

  • Date:  Saturday 14 November
  • Time:  6 pm
  • Venue: Nivenia Hall, Harold Porter NBG

2. Annual Fundraiser – ‘Travels in Peru’ by Judy New

  • DATE:  Saturday 28 November
  • TIME:  6 pm
  • VENUE:  Nivenia Hall, Harold Porter NBG

If you have not yet done so, remember to diarise this event. Funds raised will be used for various branch educational projects.

Tickets cost R70 and can be bought at the talk and at the following shops:

  • Penguin Place, Clarence Drive, Betty’s Bay
  • Pringle Bay Books, Pringle Bay
  • Oupa’s Book Shop, 2nd Street, Kleinmond
  • Harbour Road Books, Kleinmond

3. The Life and Times of Dinosaurs by Prof Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, UCT

  • Date:              Saturday 12 December
  • Time:               10 am
  • Venue:           Pringle Bay Community Hall

*Note that this is a morning talk, and will be followed by our Thirtieth Birthday Celebratory Picnic. (See below.)

4. Thirtieth Birthday of the Kogelberg Branch – A Celebratory Picnic

Join us for a family picnic to celebrate our thirtieth birthday!

  • DATE AND TIME: After the December talk on Saturday 12 December at 10 am.
  • VENUE: Stroompie, an unspoilt piece of land with milkwoods and a stream on the coast beyond Betty’s Bay towards Palmiet River
  • DIRECTIONS:  Take Clarence Drive from Betty’s Bay towards Kleinmond. Just after ‘Die Blomhuis’ (Dr Flip’s residence) on the right, you will see a small gravel road. Turn right onto this road and continue along it as far as it takes you.
  • WHAT TO BRING: This will be a self-catered occasion, picnic baskets, not braais, your own tables, chairs, umbrellas and rugs in a unique space (no toilets, be warned).

We would like to know the approximate number of people attending. If you plan to come to the picnic, please let Gwen Coetzee know, on 079 673 8882 or 028 272 9057.

The picnic will be a grand time for our annual presentation of BotSoc Certificates of Appreciation.