Open your road atlas and pick any place on the northwest coast: Groenrivier, Strandfontein, Hondeklipbaai (or Hondeklip Bay), Kleinsee....no, let's go back to Hondeklipbaai, just because, well, it's just about the furthest place from anywhere else that is anywhere else.
And there's not much there, except for a few shacks, a lot of shipwrecks, and a rock shaped like a dog ... well, it may look like a dog if you're a little crazed from being too long in the desert, but mostly it's just a normal-looking rock.
By day two you'll be eyeing out those place-to-eat fishers' cottages with lust and intent - much like Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush, when he starts seeing his companion as a delicious chicken, trying to get a cellphone signal to check if you can afford to retire right then and there. It's a bewitching place, where dogs miraculously turn to stones, and vice versa.
The gravel roads that lead west from Kamieskroon to the coast give the adventurous traveller an opportunity to visit some remote and unusual...
Due to the opening of the copper mines in Namaqualand and their transport route to the sea, Hondeklip Bay had developed from a single tradin...
Activities on the Richtersveld Route include hiking, 4x4 trails, bird watching, mountain biking and donkey-cart rides. The Richtersveld Rout...
The entire Namaqua National Park is actually one of those ‘buy one, get one free’ parks. One the one side you have the endless Sandveld ...
The Villain is a local artist who paints ‘oils, portraits, seascapes, landscapes, flowers, animals, and others’. His real name is Dion a...
Hondeklip Bay (Dog Stone Bay) gets its name from a small, canine-shaped rock that looks out to sea. The ‘ear’ of this formation was chop...