Shorelines (38 page)
Authors: Chris Marais
Tags: #Shorelines: A Journey along the South African Coast
“Most importantly, we can do something about overfishing. Even the fishing companies are starting to call for larger Marine Protected Areas. Argentina had similar overfishing problems, but they set up massive MPAs, stretching right out to the edge of the Exclusive Economic Zone 200 nautical miles out, and rigorously policed them. Now their fish stocks are increasing in number and size.”
Julienne du Toit
19 July 2006
Alexander Bay
027 783 11330
Helené Mostert: 084 513 0871
Springbok
Springbok Lodge + Restaurant
(Jopie F Kotze): 027 712 1321;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Port Nolloth
Bedrock Guest House: 083 259 8865
or 017 851 8865/71/76
Kleinsee
De Beers: 027 807 2999;
082 225 8313;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Hondeklip Bay
Die Honnehok Guest House:
027 692 3041;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Doring Bay
Die Anker: 027 215 1016;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Elands Bay
Bottergat Fisherman’s Cottage:
082 823 1300
Velddrif/Laaiplek
Harbour Lights Guest House:
022 783 2099; 082 773 6486
St Helena Bay
West Coast Peninsula Tourism Bureau
in Vredenburg: 022 715 1142
Lighthouses
Cape Columbine: 021 449 2400
Cape Town
Carnival Court Backpackers,
Long Street: 021 423 9003
False Bay & Cape Point
Traditional Kalk Bay Fishing Trip,
Surfing & Sandboarding School:
Sun Scene:
083 517 9383;
www.sunscene.co.za
Nomthunzie Township Tours:
Charlotte: 083 982 5692;
Cape Point: 021 780 9010;
Cotton’s Cottages (Simon’s Town):
021 701 0377;
073 253 5252
Cape Point Route Marketing:
021 783 0054;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Boulders Beach Lodge:
021 786 1758;
Hermanus, Gans Bay and Arniston
Brian McFarlane: 082 320 1288;
[email protected]
;
www.sharkcagediving.net
;
028 312 2788
Dyer Island Cruises:
083 402 8541; 028 384 0406
e-mail:
[email protected]
Arniston Hotel: 028 445 9000;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Victoria Bay and Knysna/George/Victoria Bay
Land’s End Guest House:
044 889 0123; e-mail:
[email protected]
Endlovana Tented Camp:
044 382 6361;
082 570 6894;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Knysna Tourism: 044 382 5510
Storms River Village
Storms River Adventures:
042 281 1836;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Woodcutter’s Cottage: 072 299 1760
Jeffreys Bay
African Perfection Accommodation:
042 293 1401;
084 207 1337;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Port Elizabeth
Windermere Boutique Hotel:
041 582 2245;
Calabash Tours:
041 585 6162;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Port Alfred
Port Alfred Tourism:
082 866 8873; 0466 241 235;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Wild Coast
Wild Coast Meander:
043 743 6181; 083 260 5588
e-mail:
[email protected]
South Coast
South Coast Tourism:
039 682 7944: 083 344 1437;
e-mail:
[email protected]
Suggested Literature on the SA Coastline
• Baai van Diamante
Pieter Coetzer (Nasionale Boekdrukkery, 1997)
• Glamour of Prospecting, The
Fred C Cornell (David Philip, 1986)
• History of Copper Mining in Namaqualand, A
John M Smallberger (Scholtz Trust, 1975)
• Fortune through my Fingers, A
Jack Carstens (Howard Timmins, 1962)
• Discovering Southern Africa
TV Bulpin (Self-published, 1970)
• Fishermen of the Cape
Frank Robb and Bruce Franck (Longman, Penguin SA, 1975)
• Fishing for Fortunes
Robin Lees (Purnell, 1969)
• History of the Stephan Family of the Western Cape, A
Eric Rosenthal (unpublished, 1955)
• Hilda’s Diary of a Cape Housekeeper
Hildagonda J Duckitt (MacMillan SA, 1978)
• Labour, Capital and the State in the St Helena Fisheries 1856-1956
Lance van Sittert (UCT dissertation)
• Eccentric South Africa
Pat Hopkins (Zebra, 2001)
• Tavern of the Seas
Lawrence G Green (Howard Timmins, 1947)
• South African Beachcombers
Lawrence G Green (Howard Timmins, 1958)
• Thunder on the Blaauwberg
Lawrence G Green (Howard Timmins, 1966)
• On Wings of Fire
Lawrence G Green (Howard Timmins, 1967)
• The False Bay Story
Jose Burman (Human and Rousseau, 1977)
• Historical Simon’s Town
Edited by BB Brock and BG Brock with the collaboration of HC Willis for the Simon’s Town Historical Society, (AA Balkema, 1976). Excerpt from ‘Whaling in False Bay
’
Abdullah Moses – courtesy of Simon’s Town Museum.
• To Catch a Whale
Terence Wise (Geoffrey Bles Publishers, 1970)
• Dawn at Dyer
Jan Fourie (Self-published, 2002)
• The People of De Hoop Nature Reserve
Anne and Mike Scott of the Overberg Conservation Services (undated)
• Camp Life and Sport in South Africa
TJ Lucas (Africana Book Society, Johannesburg, 1975)
• Frontiers
Noel Mostert (Pimlico, 1993)
• The Dead Will Arise
Jeff Peires (Jonathan Ball, 2003)
• A Fish Caught in Time
Samantha Weinberg (Fourth Estate, 2000)
• In the Company of Diamonds
Peter Carstens (Ohio University Press, 2001)
• Overberg Odyssey – People, Roads and Early Days
Edmund H Burrows (Self-published, 1994)
• The Overberg – Historical Anecdotes
SJ du Toit (Self-published, 2005)
• Swept by Wind & Wave
WL Speight (Howard Timmins, undated)
• Village of the Sea – Story of Hermanus
Arderne Tredgold (Human & Rousseau, 1965)
• Bay Between the Mountains
Arderne Tredgold (Human & Rousseau, 1985)
• The Absolute Border
Alan Jefferies (Self-published, 2001)
• Our Coast for Life
Edited by Karey Evett (Project Co-ordination, undated)
• Paradise Under Pressure
Alan Mountain (Southern Books, 1990)
• The Caliban Shore – The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways
Stephen Taylor (Faber & Faber, 2004)
• Oceans of Life off Southern Africa
Edited by Andrew Payne and Robert Crawford (Vlaeberg, 1989)
• Currents of Contrast Life in Southern Africa’s Two Oceans
Thomas Peschak (Struik, 2005)
• Old Four Legs
JLB Smith (Longmans, Green & Co, 1956)
• The Truth in Masquerade
Jane Meiring (Juta, undated)
abaKwetha
– young black males undergoing initiation
Aloe pillansi
– an endangered bush aloe
bakkie – a van
braai – a barbecue
broekielace – ‘panty lace’: filigreed metalwork
bokkoms
– dried fish
dassie
– a rock hyrax
dikkop
– a bird
droster
– a runaway slave
frikkadel
– meat ball
fynbos
– scrub-like vegetation, part of the Cape Floral Kingdom
harder – a type of fish
hotnotsvis
– a type of fish
IDB – illicit diamond buying
induna
– a local traditional leader
kwaito – township music
kabeljou
– cob
kloof
– a ravine or chasm
matjeshuis
– a small dwelling constructed from reed ‘mats’
melkbos
– milk bush
rooibos
– red bush, from which a tea is produced
sandveld
– a rare type of
fynbos
smouse
– travelling peddlers
schlentering – crooked dealings
shukka
– tartan tribal cloth
sjambok
– a heavy whip
smoorsnoek
– fish stew
Strandlopers
– ancient beach-combing community
skoroskoro
– a wreck
tsatkes
– bits and pieces, memorabilia
umngqusho
– a dish of maize kernels and beans
vetkoek
– deep-fried dough balls
witblits – ‘white lightning’: strong alcoholic spirit
First published in 2006 by Struik Publishers
(a division of New Holland Publishing (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd)
This ebook edition published in 2012 by Struik Travel & Heritage
(a division of New Holland Publishing (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd)
Wembley Square, First Floor
Solan Road
Cape Town, 8001
South Africa
Copyright © 2006, 2012 in published edition: Struik Travel & Heritage
Copyright © 2006, 2012 in text: Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit
Copyright © 2006, 2012 in photographs and map: Chris Marais,
except photograph on p 22: Jopie F Kotze
Publishing manager: Dominique le Roux
Managing editor: Lesley Hay-Whitton
Project co-ordinator: Samantha Menezes-Fick
Cover and concept designer: Daniele Michelini, Hirt & Carter Cape (Pty) Ltd
Typesetter: Tamlyn Phillips, Hirt & Carter Cape (Pty) Ltd
Editor: Deborah Louw
Map illustrator: Gillian Vermaak
Proofreader: Adri Mey
Print ISBN-13: 9781770073319
PDF ISBN: 9781920545192
Epub ISBN: 9781920545185
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