Kassiesbaai is a hamlet of charming thatched cottages overlooking the main village of Arniston.
TRAVEL The Overberg
The southern Overberg is a land of canola fields and rolling hills fragrant with fynbos, a place of ancient forest vestiges, farms turned feral to restore the Renosterveld of old, kloofs still frequented by leopards and beaches by brown hyenas.
The barnacles of history cling to this place: from our early ancestors who eked an existence from the rockpools to the first Trekboers and shipwreck survivors who settled here. Millennia of human habitation give this southern land a nostalgic cast: from Stone Age remains and the cottages of fisherfolk to grand Cape Dutch homesteads. It is a coast of lighthouses whose beams and horns have tried in vain to warn ships from the most treacherous of capes. The Deep South is a piece of Africa like no other.
CAVERNS OF YESTERYEAR
I began my meander more than 60 000 years ago. Walker Bay's Klipgat Caves have offered millennia of artefacts from Middle Stone Age people who used this ‘dwelling’ off and on for thousands of years. The shell middens
