SoPlett! | Plettenberg Bay News and Info

THE NSRI warned bathers, paddlers and surfers yesterday to beware of increased shark activity as the animals ventured closer to shore in search of food this time of year.

KNYSNA, Bitou and Eden District municipalities have each been asked to contribute more than R330000 for the cost of helicopters deployed to fight the swathe of fires which ravaged the Garden Route in February.

A SPANISH hiker who lost his way on the Robberg Nature Reserve trail, just outside Plettenberg Bay, at the weekend was found and brought to safety.

FIREFIGHTERS, with a little help from light showers overnight on Wednesday, had by yesterday morning either extinguished or controlled most of the fires plaguing the Garden Route.

FIREFIGHTERS from six Working on Fire (WoF) teams will start cutting firebreaks today in the Outeniqua Mountains above the Garden Route Dam in George.

PLETT residents were shocked at the news of a dog attack that caused the death of Evelina Davids, 60, on the afternoon of January 28. While searching for bait in the Bitou River, Davids was savaged by a Boerboel and a Great Dane that escaped from a neighbouring property

FIRE-FIGHTING heroes yesterday told of their exhausting battle against the infernos blazing across the Garden Route. Most of the fires plaguing the region, from Haarlem in the east to Still Bay in the west, were brought under control yesterday, but a blaze near Homtini in the Knysna area was racing towards farmland and buildings by early evening.

AT least 6000 hectares of mainly indigenous fynbos have been destroyed by wildfires sweeping across the Garden Route, and firefighters were still battling last night to contain a number of massive blazes that were raging out of control.