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“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

CONTACT DETAILS

Alexander Bay

www.diamondcoast.co.za
;

[email protected]
;

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;

[email protected]

Cape Point: 021 780 9010;

www.capepoint.co.za

Cotton’s Cottages (Simon’s Town):

021 701 0377;

073 253 5252

Cape Point Route Marketing:

021 783 0054;

www.capepointroute.co.za
;

e-mail:
[email protected]

Boulders Beach Lodge:

021 786 1758;

www.bouldersbeach.co.za

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;

www.endlovana.co.za
;

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;

[email protected]
;

www.thewindermere.co.za

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

www.wildcoastholidays.co.za
;

e-mail:
[email protected]

South Coast

South Coast Tourism:

039 682 7944: 083 344 1437;

e-mail:
[email protected]

THE READING ROOM –

Suggested Literature on the SA Coastline

Works Quoted From

•    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)

Further Reading

•    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)

GLOSSARY

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

www.randomstruik.co.za

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

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers and copyright holders.

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