Port Nolloth, Port Nolloth

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Port Nolloth is as laidback as it sounds. Nothing much happens very fast here, and as a result, holiday makers are attracted to the town to soak up the worriless atmosphere, and the sun. Port Nolloth and McDougalls Bay is home to clean beaches and calm seas, if a little cold, that offer hours of swimming, walking and boating time; and you can fish for snoek or yellowtail if you have a permit. What today is essentially a fishing village, Port Nolloth lies on the bay known by the indigenous Namaqua people as Aukwatowa (where the water took away the old man) - it was the last landfall the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias sighted, before he and his ship were blown off course and out to sea for thirteen days.

Port Nolloth lies 144 kilometres northwest of Springbok, and 90 kilometres west of Steinkopf. Port Nolloth started its life as a railway junction for the copper-mining industry, and subsequently as the site for diamond mining, but today serves mainly as a fishing village diamond recovery; large-scale shipping came to an end as diamond discoveries have gradually declined in the area.

Port Nolloth and McDougal Bay make a good stop off if you are at all interested in the Namaqua Flower Route, or a visit to the Richtersveld National Park. The local museum is filled with history, and a trip inland to the little town of Lekkersing, just north of Port Nolloth, offers a ‘look in’ to a community workgroup ‘rusoord’ where local craft in the form of ‘velskoene’, mats, huts, dresses and ‘riempie’ chairs is available. Recently inscribed as one of the eight South African World Heritage Sites, the Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape is a remarkable mountainous desert in the north-west of the country that is uniquely owned and managed by the Nama community, descendents of the Khoi-Khoi people.

It is a land of extreme temperatures characterised by a harsh, dry landscape Feast your eyes on one of Nature's grandest and most photogenic spectacles! During good years, the desert in spring is transformed into a blaze of brilliant blooms from one horizon to another. The region stretches from Groenriviermond in the south to the Orange River in the north, encompassing Garies, Kamieskroon, Springbok and Port Nolloth, among other towns. Unless you're on a tight itinerary, it's advisable to take two or three days to admire the spectacle in all its glory. The flowers are at their best on sunny days. Once seen, Namaqualand in bloom is never forgotten.

Port Nolloth is 'n kusdorp aan die Atlantiese Oseaan 80 km suid van die mond van die Oranjerivier en Alexanderbaai aan die ruwe kus van Namakwaland in die Noord-Kaap. Port Nolloth is besig om een van die gewildste vakansie dorpe aan die kus te word.

Port Nolloth is ‘n plekkie wat diep in jou hart sal inkruip as jy eers hier was. Eiendomme is nog altyd ‘n goeie belegging en is redelik bekostigbaar.