Inter-species love in Knysna: They danced by the light of the moon

There once was an unlikely – and ultimately tragic – love affair between a grey crowned crane and a Shetland pony in a town called Knysna

Hotel’s gaudy little wooden horse tells the tale of a tragic love storyThere once was an unlikely – and ultimately tragic – love affair between a grey crowned crane and a Shetland pony in a town called

All went smoothly with the family and thebalearica regulorum until the year they hired some ponies from nearby Welbedacht for one of their daughter’s “The following morning, we found a wooden horse wearing a crown at that exact spot.” The last bit, she laughs, is complete nonsense but insists the rest is gospel.

“He’s a very gender-fluid pony,” confesses the manager. The St James is currently owned by family of the late Peter Meese, who acquired it from the Goldbys and, as Rahmouni phrases it, “did the reconstruction and redesign of the property which changed it from a very grand, rather echo-y building into the awesome place it is now”. Meese died in 2022.

I hate sleeping with doors and windows closed in a place such as the St James. Such, however, was security on the 1.2ha property that I felt perfectly happy opening everything up to the sounds of the night; from the piping of plovers and dikkop to wavelets gently lapping at the shore not 20m from my stoep.I arrived after a long day of motoring and was thankful I’d made an early dinner booking at Social Eatery at the Knysna Hollow Country Estate just around the corner from the hotel .

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