Eve is depicted as a woman, obviously because of the the size of the footprint that
was discovered by Dr Dave Roberts. What she was doing on that day who knows, but certainly
walking down the dune. These footprints have been preserved in an old sand dune. I'm Pippa
the manager of the West Coast Fossil Park which is situated
about 20 kilometers outside of Langebaan on the West Coast. There are other fossils as well,
dating to to the same age, so I guess if you put it all together
this landscape has been inhabited by people for at least 117 000 years.
Youngster, a Langebaaner, I'm telling you is a fish person.
We were brought up on fish.
If you come off the water at night, we braai (BBQ) fish,
if you come home at midday then you get baked fish.
This is what Langebaan is.
The Langebaan people are fish people, friendly people,
man.... authentic West Coast people.
My name is June Stringer, born and raised in Langebaan.
Fishermen know and they believe that they don't have
blood in their veins, they believe it's seawater in their veins.
I am Solene, my surname is Smit, and we are now in the beautiful town of Langebaan.
Langebaan has changed with tourism and other changes that have happened in the town
there is a wide range of sports that take place, the water sports, international sport events are held on our beautiful lagoon.
I do think our lagoon is the best in the world.
We really need to protect the lagoon, the birds, the fish
all the life that you find in the lagoon. We used to have in the past a lot of sand sharks a lot
of stingrays a lot of squid which is already a bit less. Then we got this beautiful flamingos and
all seasoned birds that's coming to the lagoon.
My name is Roy, surname Lloyd, we're from Langebaan.
For a lot of people a lot of people the seasons doesn't matter actually
if you live here permanently you don't worry about the seasons but as we sit here in winter
winter is your it's your it's your best, it's cold, but your days are beautiful, you either get a
perfect day like today, or you get a perfect storm.
When that dullness comes over the mountain
then we say
tonight the mist will close in, so stay at home.
Especially the fishermen.
Believe me, by 6 or 7 o'clock, that mist closes in, you can't see anything.
I always ask my children that go to sea
when the mist closes in, what do you do
you can't move forward
we must just stay where we are, otherwise we will get lost.
We have our own songs that we sing sometimes
about the town, and the children have their own school song that is about Langebaan
So..... we'll sing about Langebaan, and about it being a fishing town, and
and don't know which song, or what I'll sing but
when we has fisher people sing then [ laughs]
"my mother was a kitchen girl, my father was a garden boy that's why that's why ....
I'm a fisherman, I'm a fisherman, I'm a fisherman"
We sing this often, its all about Mom and Dad, Mom worked and
Dad worked in the garden, and that's why the became fishermen.
We had a really long beach, we could walk from Langebaan to Saldanah Bay.
I think that is where Langebaan got its name.
The West Coast has a special, a special, they brei, they speak, they brei
you know, you can you can clearly hear when somebody's from the west coast
If I must describe the people of Langebaan..
they are the nicest, friendliest, most tolerant people that I know.
Another tradition in Langebaan is, every Monday you must eat fish
because on Sunday you ate enough meat, Monday you must eat fish, even if you don't have fish, then you must look for some
or you must cook a tin of fish, but you must cook fish. That is how it is in Langebaan, and you can ask around, Monday we eat fish.
Man, one day I heard a Minister speaking, and he said, Lamberts Bay was the prettiest West Coast Town
But I don't agree with him, But I feel, Langebaan is the prettiest and the cleanest and the friendliest people that you can get.
I would really like that the tradition of fishing should continue because
I believe you are born with it, it is inside you, and I would really like that the children should continue the tradition because its our tradition
and our children should continue with the tradition of fishing.
Langebaan, welcomes everyone , it doesn't matter who or what you are, you are welcome
this is what I remember and what Langebaan is.