Sebastian The Crab 🦀

@jfjoubert @dailymaverick Hence its such a travesty that the Sarah Baartman Centre of Rememberance in Hankey remains under construction for over a decade with no end or completion date in sight. This government has a disdain for the Khoi & San people, the First Nations of South Africa 🇿🇦Its sad to witness

The San people, a term historically applied by anthropologists to indigenous hunter-gatherer communities, have lived along the Tsitsikamma coast for millennia. Their descendants still inhabit this remarkable coastline: some work for SANParks, others on fishing vessels, as tourism guides, in retail serving visitors, or tending the gardens of holiday homes. Many outsiders remain unaware that the people they encounter may be descendants of these same ancient communities.

The great journey out of Africa may have begun at low tide #Echobox=1777695808" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…

Birds chirp an hour before dawn and the frequency opens up the stomata of the plants to breathe. The frequency is common in classical music. Play classical to your plants for MUCH larger crops. Its called sonicbloom.

One thing I love about traveling is that it shatters the illusion that your current life is the only possible one.

Wild dagga on Tsitsikamma Coast

Happy Pooches 🐾 - Happy Dad 👨🏾

Success! I've made it ✨️

Why did Porsha tell Eva her titties were social distancing :(

Today is World Penguin Day.

There's a forest in Utah where every single tree is actually the same tree. 47,000 trunks growing out of one giant root system, all clones of the same parent. The whole thing weighs about 13 million pounds, around 40 blue whales worth. It's called Pando, and it's been alive for around 80,000 years. Humans hadn't even started painting in caves yet when this thing took root. It's the heaviest living thing on Earth. Trees do some properly weird stuff. When a giraffe starts eating an acacia tree in Africa, the tree releases a warning smell into the air within minutes. Other acacia trees nearby pick up that smell and immediately start pumping bitter chemicals into their own leaves, before the giraffe even gets there. Giraffes have actually figured this out and learned to walk upwind, so they can get a few bites in before the trees notice them. In 1997, a Canadian scientist named Suzanne Simard found that trees in a forest are connected to each other underground, through a giant web of tiny fungus threads that link them all together. Her experiments showed that one tree can send food and chemical messages to another tree through this fungus network. The press nicknamed it "the wood wide web." Some of the bigger claims about trees being one happy family are still being argued over by scientists, but the basic idea, that trees pass signals to each other underground, is now solid science. And some live for thousands of years. There's a tree in California called Methuselah, a kind of pine, that is almost 4,860 years old. It was already 200 years old when the first Egyptian pyramid was built. There's another one growing nearby that scientists think is over 5,000 years old. Both were already ancient when Stonehenge went up. Trees also do something to your body when you're around them. A Japanese researcher named Qing Li ran an experiment. He had people spend a few days walking in forests, then took their blood. The cells in their immune system that fight off viruses and tumors had jumped sharply, and the boost lasted for over a week after they got home. He had another group take the same kind of trip but to a city instead. They got nothing. The trees were releasing some kind of compound into the air that the city didn't have. The tallest tree in the world is in California too, a coast redwood named Hyperion. 381 feet tall (taller than the Statue of Liberty), around 700 years old. A single trunk holds 550 million leaves. You're sharing the planet with all of this.

assasinations used to have a 100% success rate, whats going on

These atrocities could never happen at this scale without mainstream media sanitizing them.

Time for the Hillbrow Renaissance 🌆 No excuses💪@CityofJoburgZA

"...instead of hiring social workers", doctors, nurses, engineers, teachers, border agents, postal service workers, let alone all the unemployed graduates that can capacitate the State. Corruption = Treason = Life Sentence 🇿🇦 #MadlangaCommission

& treason should carry a life sentence or better yet:

Silo, Severance, Foundation, Pluribus… nobody is doing sci-fi like Apple 🤌🏼

The Garden Route has officially been ranked the world’s best road trip Scoring 90.6/100, it beat iconic routes like Route 66 and the Amalfi Coast. A big win for South African tourism!: capetownetc.com/things-to-do-c…

The streets are alleging Mnisi used all his [ass]ets for those politically connected CFO jobs...mara SathAfrikans 🤭🍑💀🫠

There’s a power station on the Garden Route that was converted into a 5-star boutique hotel and spa😮 For the history lovers, here you go: Long before Knysna was built up, the area was home to the Khoisan people. Then, in the 1600s, Dutch settlers arrived. In the early 1800s, George Rex showed up. There’s a rumour he was the illegitimate son of King George III, but what we do know is that he played a major role in shaping Knysna, opening shops, building a port, and starting a timber business that exported wood worldwide. In 1870, the Thesen family arrived from Norway and expanded the booming timber trade. In 1904, Charles William Thesen bought what is now Thesen Islands and began processing timber there. The mill's leftover wood powered a station that supplied electricity to Knysna and Plettenberg Bay until the 1970s. So this place, now known for cafés and boats, was once keeping the lights on. Buildings on the island were moved around over time, often without formal plans, which explains the unconventional layout today. The main power station building, now the Turbine Boutique Hotel & Spa, was built around 1939–1940. In 1974, Barloworld bought the logging operations, but by 1980, they were shut down due to environmental impact. The site was then sold for redevelopment, and CMAI transformed it into the marina-style destination it is today, with homes, canals, shops, restaurants and hotels. The power station continued operating until 26 June 2001. Plans to turn it into a museum never materialised. Instead, in 2007, Geoff Engel and Dandre Lerm bought the site. After about three years of approvals and construction, the hotel opened in August 2010. Today, the Turbine Boutique Hotel & Spa includes rooms and suites, a spa, a restaurant, a gastro pub, conference spaces, a pool deck, and a jetty. What makes it stand out is how much of the original power station remains. The wood boiler, generators and machinery have been restored and worked into the design. Each room is uniquely themed, reflecting Knysna’s history and character. So when you walk through the hotel, you’re not just in a luxury space. You’re inside a piece of history that’s been repurposed. And that’s what makes it special. In today’s experience-driven hospitality world, it shows how powerful it can be to take what already exists and turn it into something people can connect with. It’s proof that good development doesn’t always start from scratch. Sometimes, it’s about seeing potential in what’s already there.

South Africa is making waves on the global stage again… and this time, it’s our beaches stealing the spotlight. A new report by Travelbag, highlighted by Forbes, has ranked the world’s most popular beaches… and right at the top are 2 proudly South African gems. Taking the number one spot globally is Boulders Beach: famous for its African penguins and those iconic granite boulders. The beach pulled in around 27,000 reviews and over 111,000 monthly Google searches. And right behind it, in second place, is Cape of Good Hope Beach: wild, dramatic, and undeniably beautiful, even if it’s not your typical swimming beach. The rankings looked at global hotspots across the US, Thailand, Mexico and the Caribbean… but Cape Town came out on top. We don’t just live in a beautiful country… we live in one of the most sought-after destinations in the world. And while the views are incredible, there’s also a deeper story... especially at Boulders Beach, where the African penguin colony continues to draw attention, even as the species faces serious challenges. Still… for now, it’s a proud moment. 2 South African beaches. Number 1 and number 2 in the world. Not bad at all. This story is available on Good Things Guy. It was written by the talented Savanna Douglas, one of our “goodies. ❤️🇿🇦 goodthingsguy.com/travel/two-sa-…