SoPlett! | Plettenberg Bay News and Info

WITH all the happenings and buzz of the Knysna Oyster Festival it was great to see not only the Pennypinchers Adventure Racing Team out there, but also plenty of Plett locals. For some, the Featherbed was their first trail run and for others the Forest was their first 21km.

PLETT Gymnastics Club opened last September with Olympic judge Shirley Frost as head coach. Due to the World Cup currently underway, 2010 trials for district colours were scheduled for the first half of the year.

PLETT Athletics Club was very active during March and April, the majority of members preparing for last month’s Two Oceans Marathon.

PLETTENBERG Bay has its own running club, which was started three years ago and is growing steadily. Members meet on a weekly basis to run/walk a time trial together and socialise afterwards at their club house… with a view that rocks!

ABOUT 1700 people took part in the sixth annual two-day Sabrina Love Ocean Challenge in Plettenberg Bay yesterday and Sunday, when international sports stars swam, paddled, cycled, ran and walked alongside holidaymakers.

THE Sabrina Love Ocean Challenge has grown from humble beginnings six years ago – when a small bunch of locals got together for an ocean swim – to what is now the signature event of the December holiday season.

Is your company looking for a year end function with a difference? Businesses located on the Garden Route and surrounds have the opportunity to get involved in a very novel and exciting year end activity that not only supports a most worthwhile cause, but at the same time guarantees heaps of summer fun.

Plett is fast becoming the Sport and Nature capital of South Africa and with it the Festive Season again introduces the most popular sporting event on the Plettenberg Bay calendar – The Sabrina Love Ocean Challenge brought to you by Stonehage & Discovery.