\u201c \u2019n Man met nie \u2019n bang haar op sy kop nie en iemand met durf en daad; \u2019n man wat omgegee het en lief was vir sy familie, vir sy skoolkinders en vir sy See-en-Sand-lewensredder-beweging; \u2019n groot man wat diep spore in baie mense se lewens getrap het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f3 lui een van die talle huldeblyke wat ingestroom het n\u00e1 die dood van Sparks Esterhuysen, stigter van die See-en-Sand-instituut, verlede week. Hy was 81 jaar oud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Esterhuysen was \u2019n LO-onderwyser by Paul Roos Gimnasium in Stellenbosch toe van sy leerders hom gevra het om \u2019n kamp te hou waar hulle meer oor die see kon leer. Die gewildheid van di\u00e9 kampe het daartoe gelei dat hy See-en-Sand begin het, waar talle jong mense oor die jare as menseredders gekwalifiseer het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Benewens die feit dat hy die bekende See-en-Sand-instituut gestig het, was Esterhuysen ook \u2019n baanbreker op talle ander gebiede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cape Whale Coast-toerisme het in \u2019n huldeblyk genoem dat Esterhuysen en sy vrou, Tilla, die eerste mense was wat \u2019n restaurant by Bientang se Grot bedryf het. Vars gebraaide vis was glo \u2019n gewilde maal op di\u00e9 restaurant se spyskaart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens di\u00e9 huldeblyk het Esterhuysen, wat op die eerste Walvisfees se re\u00eblingskomitee gedien het, ook talle sportgeleenthede gere\u00ebl, waarvan die eggo\u2019s nog duidelik sigbaar is in hedendaagse geleenthede in die omgewing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die w\u00eareldbekende jaarlikse Trans Agulhas-bootvaartkompetisie was ook Esterhuysen se geesteskind. Hy het die idee vir die uitdaging gekry nadat hy ongeveer 700 km per kano van Nature\u2019s Valley tot in Kaapstad geroei het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten spyte van doemprofete wat die bootvaartkompetisie as te gevaarlik beskryf het, het dit \u2013 volgens die Trans Agulhas-webblad \u2013 op 26 Desember 1988 met drie bote begin. 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