![]() Enkele van hierdie ou huise is gesloop en vervang met dubbelverdiepinggeboue. Die meeste huise is baie beskeie en dateer uit die eerste helfte van die vorige eeu. Heroldsbaai het weinig permanente inwoners. Tydens die skoolvakansies en naweke is daar enkele kioske langs die strand. Daar is een winkel wat dwarsdeur die jaar oop is. Sedert die vroeë 1940's is daar reeds gastehuise. Voor 1928 was daar aan die westekant, Sandstrandweg, nog slegs een huis. Dit was die eerste tree in die ontwikkeling van 'n formele vakansieoord. Die eerste vakansiehuis word in 1895 vir Matilda Howitson van Blanco gebou. Boumateriaal is afgelewer op sleë getrek deur muile. Oompie Meyer en John Urban, beide gesiene inwoners van George, neem in 1904 die taak op hulle om klein erwe af te baken vir die vakansiegangers se tente, waens en afdakke. Later is hulle gevolg deur 'n klompie van Oudtshoorn (en veral die Kamanassie). ![]() Aanvanklik was dit hoofsaaklik George en direkte omgewing se mense wat hier kampeer het. Alhoewel dit eers as Sandstrand bekend was, is dit in 1823 na die eerste dominee op George, Tobias Johannes Herold, 'n ywerige hengelaar, vernoem. ![]() Laasgenoemde se afstammelinge het nog belange in die omgewing. The history of the town is similar to many other similar developments along this coast:ĭie strandoordjie was aanvanklik deel van die plaas Brakfontein, toe eiendom van Dirk Lamprecht en later van Frans Gericke. The bigger one was built by the George municipality in 1935. The small resort town of Herold's Bay, about 50 kilometers past Mossel Bay, has two tidal pools. The dorpies were mostly deserted during the off-season, but busy during the December holiday period. NOTE: Most of these towns along the Tuinroete developed as remote holiday dorpies for the mainly Afrikaans-speaking farmers from the Karoo, and seasonal visitors from the Freestate and Transvaal. The most famous victim was the SS Waratah, which vanished a hundred years ago, on the 29th of July 1909, with all 211 passengers and crew aboard. Freak waves that frequent this notorious coast have plunged untold ships to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, or sent them crashing onto the shore. The infamously dangerous 300km coastline between East London and Port Edward is known as the Wild Coast has been described by experienced seafarers as South Africa's own Bermuda Triangle where ships disappear without a trace. This is probably a factor in the relatively few tidal pools that exist along the coast, compared to the numerous tidal pools found along the Natal south coast, which was a popular holiday destination of the British.Īt the eastern end of the region lies the Transkei region, home of the Xhosa people, which is famous for the huge rogue waves that sometimes occur along that coast. Big surf and currents make swimming in the sea along the eastern Cape coastline a dangerous recreational activity.īesides the major centres at Mosselbaai, Port Elizabeth, and East London, there are numerous isolated resort dorpies, where language and culture is mostly just Afrikaans. Numerous rocky points create small bays and natural rock pools, but few harbours exist along this coastline. It features long stretches of golden sandy beaches, set between sections of cliffs and deep river gorges - all washed by warm waters of the Indian Ocean. Oh, and one more thing to add about tidepools - they make a beautiful foreground around sunset shots in Hawaii as you can see from the above photo.The coastline eastwards from Agulhas to the Natal border at Port St Johns stretches for about 1200 kilometres. Do look at the marine life, but don’t touch it unless your guide says it’s ok. Check with your concierge for advice on where to see tidepools near your resort. Some Hawaii hotels provide complimentary guided tidepool tours. When you visit Hawaii, I encourage you to take a peek at the amazing ecosystem of a tidepool. A young fish may live and grow in a tidepool for three or four months before washing themselves to sea though a high tide. In tidepools, they’re protected from predators who are too large to live in the small pools. Tidepools are much like nurseries for young, small fish. << The size of tidepools vary based on the height of the tide. > Caution: you need to very, very, very carefully watch your footing around tidepools as the algae-covered rocks are extremely slippery. Though it mostly appears to be almost transparent, it grows all over the lava rocks. One of the most important parts of tidepools is algae as it is the main food source for the marine life. A sea urchin, which is called wana in Hawaiian I took a guided tidepool exploration of Hulopoe Bay through Four Seasons Lanai Resort at Manele Bay last fall and was amazed by the thriving ecosystem in these small pools of water. At first glance, tidepools simply look like pockets of water in eroded lava rock, but there’s actually an abundance of marine life in tidepools.
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