When I looked out the window at 3.45 AM on Saturday morning September 3rd the only thing I could see were twinkling stars.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you “  I said to whoever was listening.

I thought; finally we have been blessed with an awesome day for our Lions Bay community hike.

Rudy wanted an early start. We quickly unpacked the car for set up. Within minutes the first 6 (not local) hikers arrived. They helped with setting up the tent. Louis Peterson soon arrived and took his position, ready with the “Lions Hike” stamp in hand.

What is a doula? I get this all the time when I tell people what I do. Doula comes from a Greek word meaning “woman caregiver”. We now use this word to describe trained and experienced labor companion who provides a woman and her partner with continuous emotional support, physical comfort, and advocates in obtaining information before, during, and just after childbirth. I tell people “it’s kind of like a personal labor coach for parents”.

As a doula I recognize that childbirth is a profound life experience that a woman will remember for the rest of her life. To nurture and preserve positive memories of this important event a doula provides an objective source of information and support for both mother and partner throughout the entire birth experience. This encourages open communication between mother, partner and clinical care providers. As a doula, you stay with a client through her whole laboring and birth experience, in whatever capacity your client feels comfortable.

After a very disappointing start to summer, our little band of tennis players have finally been able to take advantage of the late summer weather to make use of our own lovely court.  We continue to play on a "drop in" basis on Wednesday evenings from 5:00 until dark and then again on Saturday morning from 09:00 onwards.  It is wonderful to see some others making use of this facility in the early morning as well as during any day of the week.

Unfortunately the promised repair work to the unsatisfactory court surface has still not been attended to but we have been given the assurance that it may still be done this year.  Nevertheless, our keen players have made the most of the challenging and unpredictable ball bounces

It can be said that not too many residents of Lions Bay are aware of our newly refurbished tennis court which is tucked away in the forest on Mountain Drive.  This idyllic setting can now be accessed via the recently completed Sunset Trail - simply cross over the wooden bridge across the creek and follow the path that heads up  through the newly cleared undergrowth and you will reach our court.  From there you can continue up to either Sunset or onto Trudi's trail - another tribute to the amazing work of our volunteer Trail Blazers!

I am pleased to say that the new Sunset Trail from below the tennis court on Mountain Drive to Sunset was completed on June 6th after three incredible days of work.

This now gives people the ability to avoid going by the side of, or across the tennis court when they want to go for a stroll and the option to carry on to Trudi’s Trail.

Here is a list of the incredible volunteers who joined us on the final day of trail construction and lived up to the following quote:

Richard Grass, Pat Grass, Rudy Luethy, Trudi Luethy, Brigitta Shore, Michael Broughton, Brenda Broughton, Anne_Marie Halliday, Kethrin Mueller, Neil Berman, Phil Bromiley, Rose Dudley, Ruth Simons, Rob Simons, Nichole Stevens. Ingrid Wray, Tess Strauss

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it to happen, others make it happen.”
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If anyone would like to come along and join us and help “make it happen” on future trail construction parties in the village, please contact me at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it