Festive lunch

It was blisteringly hot today but we had a lovely lunch with our supporters under the trees in the Helderberg Nature Reserve. Torsten Henschel shared rescue stories and drew parallel life lessons. We were all left inspired and encouraged. Adele Swart from Station 9 Gordon's Bay shares rescue stories at her table Natasha thanks Torsten for being our guest speaker Thanks to a generous donation from Woolworths, Wendy had a pile of prizes in her lucky draw Mrs Gisda Moolman was so moved by Torsten's talk, she gave a touching speech to honour our crew who undertake such courageous work Zenobia Taljaard, wife of former NSRI Chairman and Honorary Life Governor Hennie Taljaard, won a lovely box of Turkish Delight Jilly Lay of Helderberg Village was thrilled with her book The Little Optimist Natasha LIndeboom with Ronelle Louwrens of YehBaby Annamarie Krynauw was thrilled with her book, the Afrikaans edition of our 50th anniversary collection of short stories