Kalk Bay – A Walk Through The Town
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For our time in South Africa we rented an apartment in Kalk Bay, one of the string of small towns running along the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula and looking out onto False Bay. This is a huge bay some 32km across and a great place for whale spotting in the latter part of the year.
Being all of 50 metres from the shore where most of the time the waves come crashing in, the apartment more than satisfied our desire to be by the sea. We just ignored the rather noisy main road and railway line in between.
Kalk Bay town is a sweet little place with a colonnaded main street of art, antique, clothing and bric-a-brac shops together with numerous coffee shops and restaurants. It has a great, retro, laid-back atmosphere and is full of great, retro, laid-back people. Its bohemian reputation is particularly noticeable among the ladies of the town, some of whom seem to follow the dress code of shutting their eyes and reaching into the dressing-up box every morning.
There is a substantial harbour formed by two large sea walls that not only protect a small fishing fleet, but also attract large numbers of anglers and on-lookers. Five restaurants on the harbour walls add to the attractiveness of the place, as do regular visitors Rosie the seal and her friends who perform for anyone kind enough to throw them fish…