False Bay

Kerry-Anne and I have decided to sell a hotel room that we bought a few years ago. We took a drive out to the Strand area this evening to snap a photo or two for advertisement purposes. While framing the hotel, the sun was setting behind me presenting this awesome panorama. It's winter here, so the air was crisp and only a hint of a sea-breeze was lapping at the water - I now have more photos of the sea than of the hotel ;).

False Bay was so named by early sailors who often confused it with Table Bay (which is on the other side of the Cape Peninsula to False Bay). This large bay is somewhat protected from the open ocean and sports some of the Western Cape's warmer waters. In the Strand area, bathers are able to walk out into the ocean for fifty to about a hundred metres (depending on the tide). These family beaches' waves are generally not too big, so surfers best give them a miss, but it's seriously fun for kids and their parents when it comes to body-surfing.