Walking at Langebaan Lagoon on the West Coast

By Roxanne Reid
Goingwalking at Langebaan Lagoon on the West Coast with Eddie Papier is like having your own talking encyclopaedia. He’s lived here his whole life, first as a child, later as a ranger with the West Coast National Park.Now that he’s retired from the park, he keeps in touch by acting as a guide, and there’s not much he doesn’t remember or know about the area. Now in his mid-sixties, Eddie was born in a little house on the shores of the lagoon and went to sea at the age of 15....