The story of Wendy The Whale
Wendy the Whale is the story about a lone female southern right whale, who in the 1930s, gets beached on the shore of Hermanus a small fishing town in South Africa and all the townspeople come together to help release her back into the sea.
Year after year she returned to the same cove near Hermanus Pietersfontein and the village folk soon considered her as one of the family and fondly named her Wendy.
She often played near the cliffs and danced through the waves with her children family and eventually - now this is where fiction mingles with fact - a house called Wendy Cottage was built on the edge of the cliffs.
Nowadays Hermanus is regarded as the best place in the world to watch whales from land.
The story of Wendy the Whale is a story about man's ability to live in harmony with nature as well as people's ability to come together as communities valuing the environment and about communities taking hands for the greater good.
Source
Local inhabitants:
David Abraham
Herklaas Wessels
Illustrations
Lucy Newton, an artist from Edinburgh
Publisher:
Wynstones Press
British teacher and author Alexander Williams’
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