Eddie needs your help

Hi Durban friends, surfers and ocean lovers

If you’ve been to North Beach in the mornings, you will know Eddie. He’s there every morning from 4.30am to make sure your car is safe, to hold your keys, to open your boot for your board as you come back, to help you take out your bike and put it back again… he sweeps his parking area, picks up litter and even marked out the parking spaces with chalk every morning until the municipality finally got round to it. Eddie is the ultimate car guard and has become a friend to many of us. 

Eddie needs our help. 

Eddie has a severe lung infection and is currently in Addington Hospital. He started feeling off-colour last week, but despite going to a doctor last week (thank you Liesl and Freddie!), by yesterday, he was in a critical condition and could barely breathe.  JB Blanc (the big Frenchman) took it on himself to take Eddie to ER at Umhlanga, to try and get him immediate and life-saving treatment at an efficient facility that wouldn’t leave him lying in the corridor all day. JB stayed with Ed...