Lionel Esau, Deputy Mayor of the Eden District Municipality, Vernon Gibbs-Halls, Biodiversity and Coastal Management at the Eden District Municipality and several other role players proudly hoisted the 2013/14 Blue Flag last Friday (29 November) in front of the Wilderness National Sea Rescue (NSRI) building.
Gibbs-Halls said: "We were awarded the Blue Flag status, but it was touch and go. We nearly didn't get it."
According to Gibbs-Halls the Kiani Satu oil spill in August made it difficult to persuade the judges that Wilderness beach again deserves Blue Flag status.
Read more in tomorrow's George Herald, and online.
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Getting ready to hoist the flag.
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