My name is Latifa Cozyn and i grew up in Kalk Bay
The first people that arrived here basically was the Dutch because this was like a transit uh a a
a spot where goods was transported to Simons Town the roads weren't good so what they did they kept
the stores here in Kalk Bay and then they used to use a little ship's,boats to take it around to
Simons Town so that was a dutch influence and then with abolishment of slavery from 1834 onwards 1838
most of the slaves also came to settle hear the Filipinos settled here because their ship capsized
and they found themselves on the shores of Kalk Bay and they found that there was abundance
of fish and um so it was people also from St Helena bay this was like a fishing community and
the people that we that live here they've many have sort of um sort of interracial ancestors
you know Italian, Filipinos the De la Cruz's the Urispys the Gomez's us the Cozyns were from Java
and um and then we had also many Afrikaans and and and and British people our neighbors
were neighbors were Italian some of them were from from London from Kent in England
and um but this was like a grey area you know while everybody was living apart during apartheid
Kalk Bay lived in harmony we didn't see each other in a color we didn't color each other in
Quagga books was started by my dad George about 30 years ago
he'd been a fisherman had a boat in the harbour for a number of years and was finding it
increasingly hard so he started dealing in junk basically and it developed into this bookshop
What people can expect in Quagga books is hopefully a fairly unique and authentic experience
we deal in an eclectic number of things mostly books, maps, prints and art
but pretty much everything we have is original and hopefully interesting and unusual
I think Kalk Bay has you know it's become a really
like a trendy place it's it's always been a cool place as far as I'm concerned
a lot of other people have caught on and as a result they're great restaurants
there's an interesting mix of people it's busy it's vibey and it's a fun place to be
My name is Simon Curtis I'm a bookseller from Kalk Bay
Brass Bell is an institution in Cape Town its been around for 40 years this year. So
the building itself the original one was actually a swimming pavilion and that goes back to 1936.
Yah the cuisine's broken up into predominantly seafood it's obviously our standard fare
from hake, calamari, seafood platters we have offerings of ribs, burgers and pizzas.
My name is Gary Riley, I'm the general manager of the Brass Bell.
i think uh Kalk Bay the the most thing that I enjoy about running this guest house is the
people itself as it's such a beautiful village it attracts a certain kind of guests and these
are almost almost nice people that you like to work together with so that makes it so special
So I think originally the the main house of the guesthouse was the Mayor as much as heard but
it was converted in Chartfield Hotel, I think in that time in this hotel was here there was about
28 hotels in the fall space site in Muizenberg up to Simons Town. One of the more famous ones
was New Kings Hotel, which is just next to us that used to be the sister hotel of the Mount Nelson.
Well the nice thing about Kalk Bay is we have almost no franchises,
I hope that's going to stay there like that we have very new unique restaurants
unbelievable unique shop shops we have a bakery we have a lot of artists here we have uh
two schools in Kalk Bay we have a Theater. It's a so we are we have a big variety of offerings
which which makes this place so special apart from being on the sea and on the mountain
Hi I'm Andreas Vonblochliger
My name is Tony Trimmel
and I'm a descendant of the Filipino families that arrived here 160 years ago.
Throughout the years Kalk Bay is known as a fishing sort of paradise the bay that we um
are situated in called False Bay it was dubbed the blue the blue dam uh in Afrikaans and the
"blou dam" because of the bluish Mediterranean water that frequently came inside the bay.
Kalk Bay got its name because three free burgers were given a contract to burn
shells which they found on Kalk Bay reef and those shells were burnt in little kilns and they
used the lime from that to build houses and to send through to the castle for building purposes
there and that's kalk means lime at in initially called Kalkhoven Bay but then changed to Kalk Bay.
My name is Traci, I come from a as family of seafaring men
in Kalk Bay, my family have lived here for since the 1800s.
I do walking tours from Kalk Bay harbour and down through the fisherman's flats.
Kalk Bay is the same quaint fishing village that it's always been since the 1800s you can still
come to Kalk Bay and go to the harbour and support the fishermen by buying a fresh filleted fish
Modern Kalk Bay is old Kalk Bay with a little extra added