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CAPE ST FRANCIS ACCOMMODATION
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Cape St. Francis is about 22 km from Humansdorp, and approximately 74 km from Port Elizabeth. It offers the holiday maker many adventures, for example 4X4 beach excursions. A long stretch of surf for those who like to walk along the beach abseiling, boat cruises, surfing, windsurfing, hiking trails, canoeing, overnight bush camps, tours up the well known lighthouse, and also wonderful fishing opportunities from the surf and many rock fishing spots.

Action or leisure, the choices are varied, exciting and endless. Explore the canals by boat, venture onto the Kromme River, experience a game of golf on one of the surrounding golf courses, the St Francis Bay Golf Club or the recently opened St Francis Links, surf "The Endless Summer", charter a fishing vessel or do it on the rocks.

This area is the ideal base camp enabling you to visit nearby Addo Elephant Park, Baviaans Wildernes Area, Shamwari Game Reserve, Tsitsikamma Canopy Tours, the Kouga Cultural Centre or experience the ultimate thrill of Bloukrans bungy jumping.

Since the 1800's, the old lighthouse has been keeping watch over the dangerous rocky shores. It is one of the highest lighthouses built from stone and masonry in South Africa and has a breathtaking view over the surrounding The Lighthouse tower over the surrounding area of Seal Point, Cape St. Francis area. Tours are available into the lighthouse and it is a wonderful experience to climb to the top and look out over the bay.

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Cape St Francis has a fishing village ambience where you can leave behind the anxiety of crime-ridden cities. It encompasses a holiday resort, a comprehensive mini market, restaurants and pubs, approximately 650 residential plots, and a world class surf reef and point break, and a Lighthouse. Cape St Francis is the Second Furthest Point of Africa.

Cape St Francis Lighthouse was declared a National Monument in 1984. The lighthouse was commissioned on 4 July 1878. It is a 28-metre circular masonry tower that supports a lantern house and 2nd order rotating lantern consisting of 8 catadioptric lens panels.

The lighthouse is situated within the eastern part of the Cape floristic region, a floral territory internationally recognised for its impressive assortment. The plant life supports a diversity of bird, rodent and other small animal inhabitants.

Efforts are being made, due to this reason, to have the area declared as a Private Nature Reserve.

A distinctive focal point in the village of St Francis Bay and Cape St Francis is Port St Francis. The area is very well established and development is continuing with the addition of "The Port Hotel and Conference Centre" (amongst others).

The harbor serves as moorings for a hefty fleet of private yachts and recreational fishing boats and is also home to several commercial and long-line vessels.

The breeding area for the bronze whaler sharks is the Bay of Cape St Francis. Cape fur seals are plentiful at Seal Point. Bottlenose dolphins can be found patrolling the wide beach between these two areas. The choices of activities are varied, exciting and endless from action to adventure.

Canals can be explored by boat, you can venture on to the Kromme River, experience the 18 hole links-style golf course, bowls, tennis, squash, surf the "Endless Summer", charter a fishing vessel.

The St Francis Golf course is an eighteen hole course, and is not to be missed. It is a natural course between the beach and the cultivable land. The bunkers are therefore very natural, and look as is they have simply been ploughed out of the land. The bunkers are what define the course, and it is the main reason for the quality of it. The layout of the course has been copied because of how well it works. The shape of the greens is also as a result of the land. The greens have simply been placed on top of the sand, changing shape in construction as the wind changed its mind.

 

 


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