Crayfish Festival Paternoster 28th Nov 09

Crayfish Festival

A Crayfish Festival will be held in Paternoster (West Coast) with lots of stalls, entertainment, competitions, music, kids activities, celebs and more.

Come feast your eyes and taste buds
Enjoy the Live Entertainment
Compete in some competitions
Shake hands with some celebs that all enjoy Crayfish

Paternoster will be having its first Crayfish Festival on the 28th Nov 09 (Situated on the West Coast)

With lots of stalls ranging from:
Snoek Braai
Sea-Food Potjie Kos
Crayfish Braai
The day revolves around Sea-Food
Beer Garden
Arts and Crafts - Sea Shells / Ornaments

Once purchased a ticket and you arrive at the entrance gate:
You will be welcomed with a Glass of Wine and directed to a boat there you have a selection of Crayfish to choose from.



The one you choose will be cooked or thrown on the coals for a Lekker Braai.

While you wait your glass of wine will be topped up.
The kids can enjoy some face painting, jumping castles etc
The DJ will be entertaining the crowd with his vibey beats.
You can relax on the grass with your lunch and wine.

Our Fisherman can escort you to their boats and take you for a boat trip
View the seals and penguins if you're lucky

* Competitions would be the biggest Crayfish catch of the day
* Best Crayfish Potjie and Best Crayfish Baai

Entry fee should be paid on the day

Best Crayfish Potjie and Best Crayfish Baai

Crazy Prizes to the winner
Too book a stall or purchase tickets: Kindly give us a ring

For more information please contact:
Creative Spunk "Events & Entertainment"
Events Co-ordinator
Jenni - 0836922201
creativespunk@live.co.za
Skype - jennilee-

Venue

Date: 28 November 2009
Location: Paternoster, West Coast - CT
Cost: R90
More info: Paternoster Sport Grounds

Contact: Jennilee
Company name: Creative Spunk "Events & Entertainment"
Telephone number: 0836922201
Email address creativespunk@live.co.za

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Lagoon Life Festival, Langebaan

The inaugural Lagoon Life Festival will take place in Langebaan this coming weekend 24 & 25 October. The Festival has its roots dating back to 2003 when the first paddling race organised on the Langebaan Lagoon was staged. This event has evolved, thanks to major input from Driftwoods Restaurant, who have sponsored the event for the last 6 years. Last year saw the addition of a Sunday paddling race and 2009 sees the transformation into a major outdoor sporting festival. Among the new events on offer this year are; Stand-Up-Paddling, Kitesurfing, Sailing, Trail Running and Mountain Biking. The unique Lagoon and weather conditions at this time of the year lend themselves to making these types of events spectacularly successful.

There is something on offer for everyone, with watersports leading the way as well as land-based for those who prefer to keep their feet dry. The paddling, SUP, running and Mtb events all offer an option for children to take part as well.

Registration online or on Friday night @ Driftwoods, Langebaan 1800-2100

www.lagoonlife.net

link sponsored by West Coast Office National

possible radar interference from wind turbines planned for the west coast.

British high-technology missions systems and information management company BAE Systems Insyte has been invited to, and will, bid for a South African requirement to investigate possible radar interference from wind turbines planned to be established on the country's west coast.

"Insyte has already done such a study for a wind farm planned to the east of London," reports Insyte Head of Business Development: Asia Pacific and South Africa Steve Kilvington.

"Heathrow Airport was concerned this would interfere with its air traffic control radars. We were able to establish that wind turbines at the planned location would be below the radar horizon from Heathrow and would not interfere with its radar."

Reportedly, the South African Air Force (SAAF), which has an air base at Langebaanweg, is concerned that wind turbines could interfere with the base's radar. Langenbaanweg is the home of the Central Flying School, which carries out the SAAF's basic flying training.

The potential problem is that the rotating arms of the turbines giant propellers could reflect radar pulses in multiple directions, which could create an interference pattern on the radar screen or, even worse, generate anomalous returns on the screen, confusing the air traffic controllers (there could appear to be more aircraft flying than there really were, or an aircraft's position, as displayed on the radar screen, might not be its real position) and so causing them to issue instructions that cause, not prevent, a crash.

Insyte has previously worked in South Africa, on phase one of the South African Army's Ground-based Air Defence System programme. The British company worked with South African companies Reutech Radar Systems and Cybersim on this programme. (BAE Systems bought Cybersim, but subsequently sold it to Saab; BAE Systems owns 20% of Saab).

"South Africa is interesting for business," says Kilvington.

Insyte operates some 90 laboratories across the UK.

A number of companies are undertaking studies to generate electricity from wind in the Western Cape.

Power utility Eskom is planning a 100-MW wind farm, close to the town of Koekenaap.

The Oelsner Group will also start an environmental-impact assessment for a R1,5-billion 70-MW wind farm near the town of Darling, in the Western Cape. The proposed wind farm will be located on the State-owned Langefontein farm, which was once the site of an apartheid-era military radio station.

(Keith Campbell is attending the DESi as a guest of BAE Systems)

Tormin Project , West Coast, South Africa

In December 2008, MRC was granted mining rights for the Tormin heavy minerals project, on the West Coast of South Africa. Final processing plant design and engineering are now taking place.

“The company has commenced procedures to appoint an engi- neering group to update the existing feasibility study. Based on a positive outcome to this phase of the work, the company will let a tender for a turnkey project to produce zircon and rutile concentrate,” says Caruso in his statement to shareholders.

“On the current schedule, the plant should be operational by the end of calendar 2010,” Caruso adds.

West Coast Gas Field drilling has started

Gas exploration company Forest Exploration International and its project partners plan to spend between $3-billion and $4-billion over the next 20 years to develop the Ibhubesi gas field, off South Africa’s West Coast.

The initial drilling programme into the gas field has been “highly successful”, producing a gas well that tested better than any other well drilled off the South African coast. However, the second phase of the $100-million drilling programme was less successful.

Forest Exploration International commercial director John Langhus told Engineering News Online that it had not yet defined a definitive resource estimate of the gas field. However, “we do consider it a world-class asset and a world-class discovery, and it is large enough to move ahead”.

Langhus stated that the company was awaiting a decision from the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) on whether production at the Ibhubesi gas field could go ahead. If the production right was received within the expected date, which was June this year, it was likely that production would start in 2012.

The gas from the project was most likely to be used for electricity production, and Langhus noted that although the company did not have any definitive offtake agreements in place, it was in advanced discussions with several parties.

“We are pretty confident that there is plenty of market here to be developed.”

Langhus told the Cape Town regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry that it planned to draw 100-million cubic feet of gas a day and that this was expected to rise to about 225-million cubic feet.

The initial supply would be enough to power a 700-MW combined-cycle gas turbine to supply base-load electricity or 400 MW of peaking power from an open-cycle gas turbine. These power stations would be able to compete with coal-fired power stations but would be cleaner and could be constructed in a shorter time.