Holiday - Day on the Beach in Hermanus - Kammabaai

Another awesome experience I wanted to tag on the globe was the day on the beach at Kammabaai!

Hello there! I am Zak Ludick from Cape Town, South Africa and this is my post about our little holiday in the South Coast! Its winter, but I come from the West Coast which is only 2 hours away from this holiday destination, but its a different ocean!

So it is way warmer!

It was a warm winter day so myself and the boys went down to the beach! There was a pathway to follow Eastwards to get to Kammabaai. We received some directions.

The path is well maintained and petty easy. Its a bit rough for people not wearing shoes though!

Every corner we rounded showed us new sights and vistas. It was incredible!

Me and the monkeys: @merenludick behind me and @matthew-williams bringing up the rear of our little party.

On a Quest to find ourselves some serious fun!

Just look at that view! Kammabaai lies on the next beach, but what a nice place to go sit and watch the sea and relax! (Not with the boys maybe, haha)

The path winds onwards, taking very natural turns along the beach limits.

There are loads of little fresh water rivulets making their way to the sea and little bridges make it easy to get across. This whole path is great for runners, cyclists etc. I am sure @new.things would love to give the whole coastline here a go! Hehe.

From far away, you can really see the path, but you can imagine it follows that line in the center.

Look at that sky and the sea! Glorious. Last bit to go!

The troopers still following behind, enjoying the new sights and sounds!

Right, then there is a bit of a gap with the photos. We had a lot of fun. We swam in the ocean and then I found the boys busy trying to build a dam.

There was a fresh water river, a tiny little brook, running out to the sea here. The boys and some other kids were doing their best to try build a dam wall... They were not successful. Whatever obstacle of sand and stone they put down would be washed away and undercut by the water...

So I came along with the engineering solution: We first divert the little stream in a man-made canal and lead it around where the dam site is.

We then built a massive and stong dam with all the stones we could find and filled the gaps with sand!

The river diversion could be opened and closed to fill the dam with water but also bypass again to keep what they want and create a little pool that was more or less stable!

Here we can see that there was quite a bit of space to sit!

The boys continued to shape the dam from the inside. This was something that was impossible to do when they had no diversion of the water.

On the right you can see the diversion canal that we made. Also, the dam was built between two natural stones/boulders that were too large to move.

There is a great view of the diversion. You can see the speed of the water. Also it fills up and flattens out as the stream moves and deposits sand. Its subtle, but it will eventually destroy the whole project haha. We just bought it a heck of a longer time than trying to build in a flowing stream.

@aimeludick also joined and Maddy enjoyed plonking sand on her knee.

@matthew-williams added this smiley face on the Dam.

And here is a final look out at the sea. We swam in the water between those rocks and around the one on the left hand side. You don't go near the ones on the right because of the riptide.

This was a great little family experience. I had a lot of fun with the kids and it was fun to play and build with them. A break from the usual parenting schedule.

I hope you enjoyed this post!

Cheers!

Cheers!
@zakludick

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