I ♥ Bettys Bay Because ...

I ♥ Bettys Bay

Hi, I’m Louise from The Orange House Seaside Cottage in Bettys Bay, in the Cape Overberg.

Bettys Bay IS BEST KNOWN FOR its beau­ti­ful beaches amaz­ing moun­tain and pristine fynbos.

GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN any­where in Bettys Bay with either the moun­tain behind you or the sea.
THE BEST pen­guin PICTURES CAN BE TAKEN AT Stony Point pen­guin colony.
OTHER HAPPY SNAPS AT Main Beach or swim­ming in Bass Lake. Continued

The Gravity Adventure Festival — a weekend of adventure

Kogelberg Reserve

This past week­end I left work and headed straight to a friends house to pick her up and off we headed to Betty’s Bay for a week­end of adven­ture. Arriving in the dark we even­tu­ally found the turn off to the drive­way and in we went to our sup­posedly 'haunted house'. Although we never encountered said ghost (fondly named Emily) she was fre­quently the topic of the weekend’s dis­cus­sions and often took the blame for miss­ing things or eaten food!

Besides going for a break from the city we had a few friends who were tak­ing part in vari­ous aspects of the Gravity Adventure Festival, an annual fest­ival is held in the sur­round­ing area of the Kogelberg Biosphere Nature Reserve and what a beau­ti­ful set­ting this is. This was only a few kilo­metres down the road from our accom­mod­a­tion. Continued

Betty’s Bay — a perfect get away

Bettys Bay

The quaint sea­side vil­lage of Betty’s Bay is the per­fect get away from the hustle and bustle of city life. Located between Kleinmond and Pringle Bay, Betty’s Bay is only an hour’s drive from Cape Town along the pic­tur­esque Clarence Drive Route (R44). Squeezed between the Kogelberg Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean and sur­roun­ded by fresh water lakes and the Palmiet River, this coastal town has a lot to offer.

Here are a few of the must see attrac­tions ... Continued

Watch the Penguins Play

Watch Penguins Play

Things in life aren't always black and white... except for the African Penguin. Of course things that are black and white leave little room for indi­vidu­al­ity... except for the African Penguin whose spe­cific mono­chro­matic mark­ings are so unique that they per­son­al­ise the birds like fin­ger­prints on humans.

What may seem like con­ser­vat­ive tuxedo col­our­ing is in fact com­plex cam­ou­flage ensur­ing that when swim­ming the penguin's black back blends with the ocean to pred­at­ors aflight and that the penguin's white belly reflects like sun­light to pred­at­ors lurk­ing the deep. These Black-footed Penguins also known as Jackass Penguins, due to their don­key like bray, breed only in Africa. Stony Point Breeding Colony is one of only two South African breed­ing colon­ies that are shore-based ... Continued