Before the outsiders arrived the name of Hout Bay was called Goranchouqua, meaning to be drawn by the hand of God from the waters.
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Hout Bay everybody
Hout Bay has changed considerably, I am, but with a very small country community when I
was born and when I grew up I went to the local school every year.
For me best thing growing up in Hout Bay was having the freedom of the sea and the mountains
around me.
Hout Bay is one of the oldest fishing villages in the in the southern hemisphere, It's still
the old fishing village that it that it was back in the day.
One of the one of the interesting things that people don't know about Hout Bay is that you
get to see whales and dolphins this side of the bay as well.
Chapmans Peak has definitely been renowned and seen as a most beautiful scenic drive
and often not just in Cape Town in South Africa but I've also heard recently in the world
as such.
If you come into Hout Bay as a visitor and you really want to fit in you're going to
have to greet people by aweh, which means how are you.
My husband peter and I own this property and we are the viticulturalists and winemakers
and producers of Hout Bay vineyards.
My specialty wine probably is our mcc, our bubbly.
Well Mariners Wharf is an emporium.
Every dining room has a different theme to it and it brings a lot of travelers from around
the world to this one seafood restaurant
Top dish is prawns with lemon butter or garlic butter sauce, people come here from everywhere
just dreaming and about it so that's what they that for me the top dish is our prawns.
So temperature on our side is about 12 degrees but uh of course we use quite good gear to
to make sure that you're well protected into this cold water the venture activities that
we do is seal snorkeling where we take people to a seal colony duiker island with a population
of about eight to nine thousand seals and that's where we do the seal snorkeling and
yeah we also do guided kayaking tours in Hout Bay itself
Victor's cliff lodge is on the back end of table mountain behind the world of birds and
it looks directly out in a in a southerly direction over the harbour.
Life is too short to drink bad beer come join us in the bay for an ice cold one
Coming to cape town and not visiting Hout Bay or Mariners Wharf is like going to Paris
and not seeing the eiffel tower or to New York and not seeing the statue of liberty.
I think if you come to Cape Town or even South Africa that that must be Hout Bay for a day.
Hout Bay, the best thing about living in Hout Bay must be the variety we've got everything
here we've got the variety of people we've got the variety of landscapes we've got the
variety of things to do
This one gathers the most attention it's the seed from a coco dama tree.
Blessing for the future, um i think for me uh that what comes to mind is uh is is is
what comes from our National Anthem uh was Nkosi Sikele iAfrika, because I mean it's
the community of Hout Bay but it belongs to africa, so uh Nkosi Sikele iAfika means God
bless Africa, so if God can bless Hout Bay and while he's blessing Africa he blesses Hout Bay.