Quirk & Leopard at the Gateless Gateway

09/01/2026

We hold Panthera Africa in our hearts as they rebuild after fire passed through some of their fences.

10/11/2025

Officially redirecting you.... All visitors to www.quirkandleopard.co.za will now find themselves at the website for mountainwonderer.co.za which is The Leopard's new project .🪽🐈🌳

03/07/2025

The Leopard is at Santa Charity Bookshop, Aberdeen Street, Hermanus. Pop in and browse the cheapest books in town. Fresh books arrive every day and the newly organised and cared for shelves make finding things easy. 🐆

05/05/2025

www.mountainwonderer.co.za

28/04/2025

No matter how many Quirks and Leopards pop up in the future (a man told us just today our bookshop's name is "so good - it can be used for anything really - I think I will use it for a coffee shop,") the Leopard and the silent co-founder know full well that Quirk & Leopard Bookshop, as begun in 2013 in High Street Hermanus was, is and always will be the only One of its Kind. 🦄

26/09/2024

https://web.facebook.com/share/p/UBVkFdkDN2jJbYJc/

Unknown artist; image from eskipaper; words added by SULL, possibly said by St F, possibly not

13/07/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ukBg3HBZIQ

Marco (apparently, although unconfirmed, is his name)
An inspiration
🧚‍♂️🦄🪽🪶 and yes... the birds are real.
His message boards read:
"Wake up Beautiful Friend, my holy friend - you are the light of the world nothing less. Let it be"
Another, next to a picture of Salvador Dali, reads:
"Listen - your world is a fiction, an illusion. Just one option - LOVE. Love all and focus on the present moment... nothing else. Be quiet. You are what you search for. Shalom."
Long may he play in Peace and Beauty, as the whirled swirls around him, almost no one really Seeing or Hearing
🙏
(What we are looking for is what is looking.)

05/08/2023

20/03/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/04/outpost-journey-wild-ends-earth-dan-richards-review Such a pleasing book. The author Dan Richards not only enraptured (as we all should be by Earth) but fully aware of what humans - even those we think would know better - wreak upon this Earth and sadly also plan to do on Mars.

Views from far-flung places offer unexpected insights into our relationship with the natural world

31/12/2022

Cosmic 2023 to all our Readers; thank you for 2022.

Image credit: https://www.deviantart.com/ladyblackbeast/art/Cosmos-Cat-348655894 Thank you Ladyblackbeast