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Thursday, 4 August 2011
South African Hiking Trails

Last chance for Crystal Pools hike

posted to: Activities and Things To Do, Western Cape
Crystal Pools Hike

Crystal Pools Hike

It was to the sound of baboons bark­ing that we got out of our car at what felt like just past dawn, but was actu­ally already bey­ond our appoin­ted meet­ing time. Needless to say, the other mem­bers of the party were late. The sound of baboons cer­tainly did not appear to daunt any of the other hikers already set­ting off across the R44 towards the hut from where we were to get our per­mits for the day.

Crystal Pools hike is extremely pop­u­lar. The 'gate­keep­ers', when we arrived finally at the start of the hike hav­ing taken in the view over Gordon's Bay and the mouth of the Steenbras River before our friends arrived, were already pre­par­ing to turn back the late­comers. And one hun­dred per­mits are issued a day. Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues
Monday, 20 October 2008

Glorious Gordons Bay

posted to: Reviews and Visitors' Perspectives, Western Cape
Gordons Bay

Gordons Bay

The area known today as Gordon’s Bay was named after Captain Robert James Gordon, an officer in the Dutch East India Company, who explored the area in 1778, how­ever, for many years before that, the area was known as Fish Hoek – the same name as another town on the oppos­ite side of False Bay. This little known fact is evid­enced by the name on the wall out­side the local Post Office. Another com­mon mis­con­cep­tion about the town is that the ini­tials GB (see pho­to­graph below), inscribed large on the moun­tain above the town, stand for Gordon’s Bay, how­ever, they com­mem­or­ate the General Botha, a decom­mis­sioned war­ship that used to be anchored in the har­bour, and was used for train­ing of navy cadets, who still reside at the Naval College, loc­ated near the Old Harbour.

Long the home to a rather elite group of loc­als, who live in the pala­tial homes clustered around the Old Harbour, Marina and Bikini Beach area of the town, the Mediterranean cli­mate and warm water enjoyed in the bay in sum­mer makes it a pop­u­lar des­tin­a­tion for vis­it­ors too. Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues